Gods invitation to join Him in his work
Gods invitation to join Him
2 Corinthians 5:15-20
Intro:
A little boy at school was being bullied around. That on one of these times, he draws a line in the dirt and he said to the bully “I dare you to cross the line” the bully cross over with easy. The little boy said, “Now you are on my side”
Today we will begin to see that God has called us to join Him. To be on his side of the line. It is time to join him in his work.
Friend the world is the bully and for many of us we are trying to work for god and then ask God to bless our work. It doesn’t work that way. We must join God in his work. We must discover his work. What is god doing? Not want are we doing. It’s not our little kingdom we are building it Gods.
Jesus was our picture of joining God
According to John 14:10-14John 14:10-14 (NABWRNT)
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves.
12 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father.
13 And whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it.
I Corinthians 3:8-91 Corinthians 3:8-9 (NABWRNT)
8 The one who plants and the one who waters are equal, and each will receive wages in proportion to his labor.
9 For we are God’s co-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
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According to these verses, we can see that we are to be working in Gods employment. God is not working in our employment.
Review:
1. God is at work
2. God pursue us with a love relationship
3. God will invite us to join him at his work
I. We are being invited to cross over many lines today
A. Some lines the world has drawn and some of us have step over and join them
The World is the system against God
1. Compromise
2. Tolerance
Every time we are turn around we are invited to join a new form of worldly group that will do great work for humanity.
Point: there will only be one group that will do the best work for humanity. The Church-those that are saved and are seeing God at work around them. I know that there are many churches out there that are not making the difference in their part of the world. There are many that have taken the invitation of the world and they have crossed over to their side. And for the most part its hard to see the difference between them and the true church. They are both doing work. The difference will be found in the out come of the work. The church that is working in the work of God will be doing all the social things with one difference life’s are changed and those that once had no live now have a new life in Christ.
GOD HAS CALLED US TO join him BUT WE MUST DO WHAT HE IS DOING
II. God is inviting us to join Him today
A. What is God doing?
How do we find what God is doing?
1. We have a hard time seeing God at work. Why?
We are to busy doing things that seem like the right things surely God would be doing this…..
2. 1 corinthians 15:10
God is the potter we are the clay
We must release our life to God
3. Gods word will be our guide
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[1] Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Board of Trustees, Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops, & United States Catholic Conference. Administrative Board. 1996, c1986. The New American Bible : Translated from the original languages with critical use of all the ancient sources and the revised New Testament. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine