How to embrace your preperation, knowing you have a purpose.
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Intro and tension
Intro and tension
Have you ever got something that you did not deserve?
Punishment - “funky Lady” - Man I felt terrible
Swimming - Interschool Swimming Champion - Felt like an imposter
The problem with getting elevated, to a position that we didn’t deserve is that it looks great on the outside, but on the inside your like...”What am I doing here” - It’s scary | You feel like you cheated your way there | It doesn’t feel right.
And this is because WE KNOW, WE DID NOT DO ANYTHING TO GET THERE.
Salvation is similar, we did nothing to deserve it and yet we get it - But you were ransomed at a price, for something | Today, I pray we get fresh revelation of that | That we get ability/desire to step into the Good work prepared for us, to take it back.
NEW MESSAGE SERIES | Ephesians - TAKE IT BACK | Whole book can be summarised in one Verse.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Last week: Chosen for a Purposes, Redeemed | Being Prepared in Private
This week - I want to talk about how to step into the Good works, God has for you
Title: How to embrace your preperation, knowing you have a purpose.
My Hope: You will understand and get fresh revelation of God’s Grace, and out of that, you will get a fresh motivation to do God’s work.
**Prayer**
Truth
Truth
It is Baptism Sunday _ Again | Stop, acknowledge, we have 9 baptisms in 2 weeks | It is an act of Boldness, we get baptised because the Bible says so | Some of us, want all of Jesus, but giving him half of us | We want a “Side Chick Saviour” - We want all the benefits of a relationship with Jesus, but without full commitment.
Googled “How to be a good side chick” - Do not google that. I found an article - it said “How to thrive as a side chick”
No Drama, know your role.
James says “Count it all joy my brothers” - If you want to be a committed follower of Jesus, he might take you places you don’t want to go.
2. Avoid having the “talk” - Don’t ask me Jesus, to commit, I already go to Church.
3. Let Him be the Boss, call the shots - We still want to be in control.
So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
our call is to surrender, everything. there was more like “Don’t demand money” but i’ll leave that for another day.
We don’t have a side chick saviour, Jesus wants to be your EVERYTHING.
To lay it all down, we need to understand a few things. First thing;
Where we came from, who we were and we are going to pick up in Ephesians 2.
Has anyone ever seen those people, that make amazing tansformations on the outside? Or amazing before and after Pictures? Or maybe a reno, I found some transformations
Weight Loss | Reno | Marriage | Kids |
In each of these examples there has been a change. Something has taken place. Remember, where we came from.
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
We Hated God and yet;
even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
Get this revelation.
Write this down;
You where chosen to be saved while in rebelion, to have a relationship and Purpose.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Grace - Free Gift = Charis = Kindness or Favour =
Grace carries with it the idea of an act of kindness bestowed on someone that has not been earnt by any action.
BY GRACE = Communicates that our salvation is not from us, it’s from God
You were saved for a relationship with God, but so much more.
not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
We are his Workmanship. Given to us as believers, not as unbelievers.
Poiema = English - Poem but it means his work, creation.
You have been created to take back ground by being who you are in Christ, and walking out your purpose.
everyone has an issue with the book James = James is saying “Well, you’ve been saved, let’s see it”
You have been recruited. Welcome to the team.
So if that’s true;
You where chosen while in rebelion, to have relationship
We have been saved by no action of our own
We have been created to take back ground, with purpose
How do we step into these Good works, and what do they look like?
You have everything you need, ONLY if you take your eyes off of you and put them on Jesus.
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
You have everything you need, ONLY if you take your eyes off of you and put them on Jesus.
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—
Eternity, and now.
But to step into something that we can’t even imagine, we need Faith.
Hall of Faith.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
The world calls it risk, we call it faith.
Faith is Ridiculous - It calls things that nobody sees into existence.
Think about it, it’s ridiculous;
Jesus, a man, the Son of God, perfect Lamb would die for me - take on sins of the world - until it happened.
Noah - Never Rained before - Build an Ark - Ridiculous, until it happened.
Enoch - Walking with God, then elevates him to Heaven - Ridiculous.
Abraham - Left his comfort = 100 years old, got a promise at 100 to have a baby, wife laughed - until it happened.
Why am I saying this? Because what God is calling you to do, will probably sound ridiculous before it’s reality.
When you are chosen, you need to have Faith - It’s required, you can’t do it without it, you need to see something that is not there, and believe that GOD can bring it into existence, but you need to understand - JESUS IS ENOUGH.
Last week, we spoke about being prepared in Private - and I want to tell someone ,that when chosen,
The preperation rarely looks like the platform. The training, rarely looks like the battlefield.
Let’s go back to our mate David from Last week;
But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock, I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.
“Lord, I don’t think this is the plan” - Duhhh. but I need you to do this, so you can go there.
I think, Karate Kid, is a great example.
I watched this clip and I have to show it.
Show Clip
Daniel gets soooo frustrated doesn’t he - little did he know, that he was being prepared, for the actual fight.
And too many of us are walking away from the learning environment that God has for us - So we never get in the fight that God requires us to step up into.
Look, david got sent
And David said, “The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!”
The only way David can stand up to the highest official of the day, is because he ALLOWED GOD To prepare him in a place that looked nothing like the platform.
“Where you are” is enough.
Point 2: Your annointing is in your authenticity.
You are his workmanship - David, remember tried on the mail, and said it doesn’t fit.
Heard it preached “you do you boo, it’s all about you” but this is an unsubmitted spirit -
The armour does not fit him…YET.
Most people are disposing leadership right now, or the season right now - “If I ran that company I would…”
but I am saying until you get in the weight of it, until you carry that burden you have no idea how it might weigh you down - God is saying you aint ready yet.
David was not disrespectful, that the weight, did not fit, he could not CARRY what SAUL CARRIED… YET.
David developed the spiritual discipline of self awareness.
David, with the armour, was too heavy, took it off. It takes maturity, to take something that has been handed to you, and then give it back because it doesn’t fit you…yet
David took the armour and gave it back and if he kept it on he would have lost the battle.
What have you put on, that you need to take off.
Some of us need to take off somethings
Expectations
Peoples opinions
Doubt
Fear
The Enemies Lies
Inspo and Close
Inspo and Close
When i worked in sales, and left, and then I was asked back, had to sit under someone I trained - We HOT so i’m gonna tell you, I did not take it well, We had a run in, I got a DCM - But I had no idea my character was being worked on, that I was failing forward.
When I was coaching Football, heretics Soccer, I had no idea, God was teaching me how to Unite people, the preperation was not the platform but God was preparing
Married Emma, and I got an instant family, I had no idea, God was Teaching us how to handle walk through life with teenagers, and pre-teens and now Toddlers, yeah, it’s crazy but I actually parented backwards so I could have some experience with talking into lives about that - I had no idea it was preperation
Some of the pain I have walked through, wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but I can see now why, God put me through it
When I started preaching, I tried to preach like others, put on a mask, but throughout all my preperation I have always been me - Seen me on a soccer field I am just as excited, around the business, always excited, and God said, preach teh way I made you - I use illustrations, I am excited and i’ll never preach something I haven’t gone through
Look back, on the last 5 years of your life.
Listen-
You where chosen while in rebelion, to have relationship.
We have been saved by no action of our own
We have been created to take back ground,
You need to step into the Good works that God has prepared for you before hand.
Your preperation will rarely look like the platform.
Your annointing is in your authenticity.
Jesus didn’t get what he deserved;
So we woudn’t get what we deserved;
I am loved, but do not deserve it,
You are loved, but do not deserve it
I am going to to heaven, but I don’t deserve it
I need to step into my calling, and you need to step into your calling…because God deserves it
**pray**