Sermon Tone Analysis

Missions Central Church

PRAYER

God in His Word on numerous occasions points to the fact that He is a missionary God.

He reveals to us many times over that He is a God of mission(s).

Psalm

God in His Word on numerous occasions points to the fact that He is a missionary God.

He reveals to us many times over that He is a God of mission(s).

God in His Word on numerous occasions points to the fact that He is a missionary God.

He reveals to us many times over that He is a God of mission(s).

The very truth of God being a missionary God necessitates another truth we find from Genesis through to Revelation.

Think about it a missions organization cannot be without having missionaries they send out could it?

Now they could be local, national or international, but in order to be missionaries who accomplish the mission of the organization, they have to be sent.

God in His Word on numerous occasions points to the fact that God is a missionary God.

He reveals to us many times over that He is a God of mission(s).

Think about it a missions organization cannot be without having missionaries they send out could it?

Now they could be local, national or international, but in order to be missionaries who accomplish the mission of the organization, they have to be sent.

The truth about our missionary God then is He is a sending God.

Mission is the divine activity of sending intermediaries, whether supernatural or human, to speak or do God’s will so that his purposes for judgment or redemption are furthered.

The biblical concept is expressed by the use of verbs meaning “to send,” normally with God as the expressed subject.

The Hebrew verb is s̆ālaḥ and the Greek is apostellō.

These terms emphasize the authoritative, commissioning relationship involved.

Mission is the divine activity of sending intermediaries, whether supernatural or human, to speak or do God’s will so that his purposes for judgment or redemption are furthered.

The biblical concept is expressed by the use of verbs meaning “to send,” normally with God as the expressed subject.

The Hebrew verb is s̆ālaḥ and the Greek is apostellō.

These terms emphasize the authoritative, commissioning relationship involved.

The Scriptures also employ the cognates apostolos (“apostle,” the one sent) and apostolē (“apostleship,” the function of being sent), referring to the one sent and his function.

The biblical concept of “mission” comprehends the authority of the one who sends; the obedience of the one sent; a task to be accomplished; the power to accomplish the task; and a purpose within the moral framework of God’s covenantal working of judgment or redemption.

The biblical concept of “mission” comprehends the authority of the one who sends; the obedience of the one sent; a task to be accomplished; the power to accomplish the task; and a purpose within the moral framework of God’s covenantal working of judgment or redemption.[1]

[1] Larkin, W. J., Jr. (1996).

Mission.

In Evangelical dictionary of biblical theology (electronic ed., pp.

534–535).

Grand Rapids: Baker Book House.

The truth about our missionary God then is He is a sending God.

Last week I showed you where Heaven’s throne room is Missions Central for the Trinity from where He sends the Jewish people, His people to the nations.

Last week I showed you where Heaven’s throne room is Missions Central for the Trinity:

Last week I showed you one of the many places where God’s Word gives God’s Mission for His people when they go to the nations.

God sent His son Jesus to complete what His people could not.

John

Don’t misunderstand this truth.

God’s sending was not a result of their failure but a complete fulfillment of His mission, established in eternity before the foundation of the universe and all creation.

Jesus’ time on Earth was intentionally short in that He revealed the nature of God to the world, became the substitution for us in the atonement of sin on the cross, secured the victory over death through the resurrection, and now has gone back to the throne room on behalf of all who believe.

Specific actions that bear witness to the good news of what God has done for his people.

Israel, Jesus Christ and the church all in their different ways bear witness to the saving acts of God in history.

Christian mission is empowered by the Holy Spirit.

John Newton describes it this way: “Christ has taken our nature into heaven, to represent us; and has left us on earth, with his nature, to represent him.”

[1]

[1] Ritzema, E. (Ed.).

(2012).

300 Quotations for Preachers.

Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

[1] Ritzema, E. (Ed.).

(2012).

300 Quotations for Preachers.

Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

Last week I showed you where Heaven’s throne room is Missions Central for the Trinity:

The incarnation, the coming of God the Son as Jesus the man, was God himself going on mission trip for 33 years.

The missionary left from from where He was sent, heaven, lived on mission by making disciples, by dying and rising again; then going back to heaven, he left behind the mission with those who followed Him.

The Sent One is also the Sending One.

We see that he began to prepare His followers for this mission even before the time of the cross.

Stand in Honor of the Author of His Word as we Read His Word.

After the resurrection, where Mary Magdalene is the first to witness Him alive, Jesus then appears to the Disciples.

Some commentators believe it was just the 10, due to Thomas’ absence and Judas’ suicide.

Other commentators believe it was the chosen 10 plus the close followers including the women.

We find this in John’s gospel, his version of the Great Commission.

Luke 10:1

After the resurrection, where Mary Magdalene is the first to witness Him alive, Jesus then appears to the Disciples.

Some commentators believe it was just the 10, due to Thomas’ absence and Judas’ suicide.

Other commentators believe it was the chosen 10 plus the close followers including the women.

We find this in John’s gospel, his version of the Great Commission.

John 20:19-

PLEASE BE SEATED

Notice here the parallel John draws between the Sending of the Son by the Father and now the sending of His followers by the Son.

Someone has said, “The whole business of the church is to preach the whole Gospel to the whole world.”

This task is the responsibility of the whole church.

Every man and women that has accepted Christ as Saviour and Lord should be active in the work of winning others to Christ.

Winning people to Christ is missions.

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If heaven is Missions Central for the Trinity and the Church is a representation of heaven on Earth then it is only natural that we His church would want to be a Missions Central Church.

When Christians and thus the local church are not living on Mission for God then we are living contrary to our God intended nature are we not?

Someone has said, “The whole business of the church is to preach the whole Gospel to the whole world.”

This task is the responsibility of the whole church.

Every man that has accepted Christ as Saviour and Lord should be active in the work of winning others to Christ.

Winning people to Christ is missions.

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[1] Bolick, J. H. (1987).

Sermon Outlines from the Word (p.

40).

Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.

Missions Central Churches remember one important truth: they don’t just go, they seek to be sent by God.

Missions Central Churches remember one important truth:

Don’t Go; Be Sent

This truth should be as much your prayer and my prayer as anything else this truth is.

On Sunday nights this month the sermon topic has been prayer.

We saw how the prayer life of the first church provides a pattern from which our church can learn, both in terms of the importance of prayer, and also matters of prayer.

The content of the prayers by 1st Century Christians was learned from the Disciples who of course learned from Jesus.

The prayers they prayed found in several verses of Acts echo this title.

Our prayers as Christ followers should be the same.

Look back with me in and notice for what, in regards to God’s mission tells you His follower to pray.

Pray the Lord of the Harvest Sends You

There has never been a problem with a lack of having a harvest.

Jesus told us the harvest is plentiful and ripe for picking.

The has never been a problem with having a lack of the harvest.

The problem has always been in getting the harvesters to leave the farm house.

The problem has never been with the harvest.

The problem has always been in finding harvesters to leave the farm house.

Christians tend to answer this problem in 2 ways.