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We are all Called!
We are all Called!
Monologue:
Not in his worst nightmares could he have ever envisioned that he would end up here.
If you could go back in time and make different decisions he would do it in a second.
His parents had turned his back on him.
His friends wanted nothing to do with him.
How could he blame them, all he saw was disgust when he looked at himself in the mirror.
He knew what was in every person’s mind as they would pass him by each day.
“Sell Out.” “Contempt.”
In fact they had made a special classification for guys like him.
He wasn’t worthy to be thrown in with all the other “sinners.”
Instead, guys like Matthew were one step worse, “Tax Collectors.”
On one day Matthew was sitting at his post a crowd of people surrounded a man teaching just a few feet away.
Matthew inquired from a few nearby that is was Jesus of Nazereth, a man he had heard about but never seen.
Matthew leaned in to try and hear what the popular teacher had to say.
A group of men interrupted Jesus mid sentence and brought a paralyzed man right to his feet.
Instead of being annoyed, Jesus immediately looked at the man and simply said “Your sins are forgiven.”
Matthew was so shocked by the simple words that he instinctively laughed out loud.
Too loud.
A number of people looked over at him with an irritated glare.
Jesus also looked over and Matthew slumped down in his chair.
Then Jesus turned back to the man and said, “Just to show you that I can forgive sins, Get up and walk.”
At once the man jumped up and the whole crowd stood in amazement.
Matthew had seen nothing like this before.
Then Matthew looked up and Jesus was walking directly towards his table.
If Matthew didn’t know better, the teacher was looking right at him.
Matthew glanced over his shoulder to see who else Jesus might be looking at but there was no one there.
Jesus stopped at the table, leaned in, and whispered to Matthew just loud enough to hear.
“Follow me.”
Not knowing hardly anything about this Jesus.
Not knowing where he was going.
What he was calling Matthew to or why in the world he’d selected Matthew in the first place.
Matthew found himself immediately standing up and leaving his life of tax collecting behind.
Somewhere in the deep part of his soul he knew that this was the most important decisions he’s ever made in his life.
Good morning, today we are starting a new series titled Made for Mission.
I believe the invitation that God is going to give us equally has the potential to be transforming for our lives.
Object Lesson (Place a sturdy box on the stage with the word “Mission” written on it) We believe that God has a mission for your life but we all have decisions of what we want to do about it.
We can ignore it (kick it to the other side of the stage) We can flirt with it (occasionally put one foot on it) and sometimes temporarily join God in what he’s made us to be.
We call also LIVE ON MISSION (stand on the box) and live our lives in connection with how God made us and how He’s already working.
People are seeking a purpose to their lives that is part of something bigger.
This is way bigger than a Christian thing, people will work for a lot less if they really believe in what they are doing.
Wealth does not always equal happiness.
People also want their life to be about something good.
Stanford University did a study recently to find out if people truly desired happiness or meaningfulness.
They found there was a total connect but ultimately what people really want is a life of meaning.
We were made for a Mission.
Over the next 6 weeks we are going to spend some time figuring that out for your life.
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We are going to read about Jesus calling on Matthew’s life and believe it has incredible significance for our lives today.
Read (NKJV) Matthew is Called ; ,
Matthew is Called
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9 As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office.
And He said to him, “Follow Me.”
So he arose and followed Him.
that Jesus approached Matthew says so much.
Tax collectors were seen in that culture as the worst of the worst.
Tax collectors were Jews that had sold out their own people in order to become wealthy.
People hated them.
If we could go back in time and freeze frame this scene and then pick out of the hundreds of people there who would be the last person Jesus would pick to train up and send out to change the world it would be Matthew.
Think Fantasy football first pick first round, nobody uses their pick for a backup punter.
That’s Matthew, the backup punter.
This is incredible significant for us?
If Matthew is called than that means we are all called.
JD Greer in his book Gaining by Losing says, “There is a widespread myth in the church that “calling into ministry” is a secondary experience that happens to only a few Christians.
Their job is to do the ministry and everyone elses job is to just show up and foot the bill.
Few lies cripple the mission more than that one.
Each believer is called to leverage his or her life for the spread of the gospel.
The question is no longer whether we are called, only where and how.”
You are called by God!
He has chosen you to be an active part of his mission.
Since your called, you need to start asking some big questions.
Those in the business world—why did God make me good @ business?
Surely not just to fill up your life w/ all kinds of comforts so you can spend the last twenty years of your life on vacation.
He has given you your talents as a means of blessing others and as a platform to spread the mission.
If you’re a stay-at-home mom, ask yourself: What role do I play in the advance of the mission as I raise my kids?
The same question applies if you’re in the military, fire department, teacher or student.
God may have not put you in a vocational pastor position but He has put you on the front lines for mission.
The word “vocation” actually comes from the Latin word voca, which means “to call.”
What if you started seeing your job as an actual calling from God.
Illustration:
In the morning you could get up and take a shower, get dressed, help the kids get ready for school, go to work, and come home to prepare to do it like everybody else.
OR you could like you were MADE FOR A MISSION. (Cue Mission Impossible Theme Song) You wake up expectant of what God has in store for you today.
You spend time with God through prayer and reading His word before you do anything to listen in for his instructions he has for you that day.
You prepare your kids to live on mission to.
Then you go to work with your eyes open looking for opportunities to join God in where He’s already at work.
Now it would be awesome if God called you in morning—“What’s up God? Ok talk to that person and encourage this coworker.
Got it.”
JD Greer says, “You don’t need a voice when you got a verse.”
Scripture makes it abundantly clear that God wants to work through us to share his love with others.
Look at Jesus’ invitation to Matthew.
He doesn’t say, “get in line” or “do what I do.”
He simply says, “Follow Me.” Jesus invites Matthew first and foremost into a relationship with him.
The relationship was not the by product of them doing ministry together, the relationship was the assignment.
The ministry is what would come from them spending time together.
The Christian life is not about doing stuff for God but being with God.
From Matthew’s point of view he’s obviously shocked that Jesus approached him, but it’s also remarkable how Matthew got up immediately with no questions asked.
Why drop everything?
He had a good paying job, 90% of Israel was living underneath the poverty line at this point.
He seemingly didn’t have to work hard.
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