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Why are you here?
Not here in church today, more like here on earth.
Why are you alive?
If you are a Christian, at some point you were converted to Christ:
You learned that Christ died for your sins.
You learned that you don’t have to fear Hell.
You learned of Christ’s great love.
You learned that He’s preparing a place for you.
You learned of heaven.
You learned of a paradise to come.
So why are you still here?
If Christ has accomplished all this great work for us, why hasn’t He come and taken us all to be with Him?
Why does He leave us here to face this life?
, Jesus said, “I go and prepare a place for you ...”
What’s taking Him so long?
Surely, He doesn’t mean He need more time.
He created all there is in 6 days, I’m sure He’s not lacking the skill or no how to build a heaven.
So why are you here?
For the first quarter of this year, we are going to focus on how the Lord is building His church.
And specifically, you and He’s building the church with you.
If the church is a body, and if a body is made up of different parts, how do you fit into that body.
I firmly, believe that you aren’t an accident.
You didn’t stumble into Christianity.
You didn’t stumble into the church.
Jesus said, “… I will build my church ...” and He knew what He was doing when He called you.
Rather, the Lord knew what He was doing when He called you.
And He also knew what He was doing when He gifted you.
That’s right, you’re gifted.
So what are you gifted for.
Please open your Bibles to , and we will look at verse 10.
Read
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
What are you here for?
Good works.
You are here so that you can work for Jesus Christ.
The first thing we need to know is that we belong to Jesus.
Let me go back a couple sentences:
You are here for good works.
You are here so that you can work for Jesus Christ.
I remember my first and one of the greatest jobs I ever had, I worked at Dairy Queen.
I had so much fun there.
I developed life skills, like making awesome ice cream cones.
You ever go to the barbecue restaurant Dickies, I can make you a really pretty ice cream cone.
I enjoyed the people that I worked with.
It’s where I met Amanda.
It was a blast.
But there were many times I was having so much fun, that the manager had to come to me and tell me to get to work.
Go stock cups, napkins, wipe tables, anything.
I had to be reminded that when I was at Dairy Queen, I was there for my boss.
It wasn’t my time, it was someone else’s time
You probably understand that concept.
When you have a job, you are expected to perform and work a certain way.
Let’s apply that same thinking to the Christian life.
Previously, when we lived our life, we lived for ourselves.
We lived in sin.
We followed our passions.
We did what we wanted.
It was our life.
It was our time.
Like Frank Sinatra said, I did it my way.
And what was the result?
says, “... 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.”
The result is that though we thought we were free, we were really storing up the wrath of God.
We were children of wrath.
Because when we were doing things our way, we were sinning.
And though we thought we were free, we were really slaves to sin.
And one day we would receive the wages of sin … Hell.
But if you are a Christian you affirm this great truth, you were bought.
You were purchased.
Christ, gave His life, so that you would live.
We call Him Lord.
To be Lord means that He is our master.
We are His slave.
He owns us.
And now it’s as if we work for the ultimate boss.
The Dairy King.
Our time … is His time.
He owns us and He does with us what we want.
Why do we need to hear this?
Because many times we don’t live that way.
Sure we affirm it on paper.
Sure we say, Jesus is Lord.
Sure we quote that says God owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
But in reality, we don’t think that God owns us, or that our time is His time.
You become a Christian, nothing changes.
Sure, morally, you may be different.
You don’t smoke, drink, chew or date women who do.
But you still consider your time your time.
You are numero uno.
And if we are created for good works and serving God, you’ll consider serving God … when you have time … when He fits into your schedule.
Just imagine if you took that thinking into your work?
Imagine if I was at Dairy Queen, and my boss said, “Luke, clean the bathrooms.”
And I said, “Sure, just let me finish playing this video game.”
My boss would say, “You’re shift is over.
Go home.
You’re done here.
You’re fired.”
Yet, for many Christians that’s how they act with the Lord.
I’ll serve when I get around to it.
I begin here, because the passage says, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus ...”
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