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* SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP*
*Sagamore** **Hill** **Baptist** **Church*
*February 26, 2006*
*Rev.
Billy Taylor*
*PREPARING FOR A NEW WORK OF GOD, Part 1*
*Joshua 3:1-6*
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Introduction
We have been talking about God doing something new, God doing a new work here at Sagamore Hill Baptist Church.
If we are praying that God does a new work in our church, then we need to begin making preparations for this new thing God is about to do.
Did you know that God is always doing something new?
When God spoke to Moses at the burning bush, Moses asked: "What are You?" "Who can I tell the people sent me?" God said; "Tell them I am sent you."
God is still the great "I AM".
When you’re I AM, you’re always in the present.
He didn’t say, “I WAS.”
So many Christians today and so many churches today are living in the I WAS – the GOD WAS.
Look back through the Bible, and you’ll find all the things that God was and God did.
But what is God doing NOW?
Is God really doing something now?
Does God want to do something now?
Our God is an infinitely creative God.
He always is doing something new.
If we look at creation, we see an infinite creative God.
God could have made a cow, a horse and a dog – and stopped there.
But he made the elephant and the lion and the alligator and hippopotamus and a million other animals.
He is the infinitely creative God.
I spent a couple of years ministering at a church in West Texas.
West Texas is full of rolling plaines.
You can look out arcoss the plain and see, well nothing.
No trees, no mountains, no nothing.
I heard once that if you live in West Texas, you can send your son off to school a hundred miles away, and watch him the entirie time.
But even in the midst of this vast nothingness, God was incredibly creative.
If you take a closer look at those open plains, you see literally thousands of different types of plants.
From wild grasses, to wild flowers, to cactus.
Even in West Texas, God was infinately creative.
The infinately creative God, expresses Himslef in a creation.
God did not wind up this world like a toy top, spin it off and then just watch it slow down.
He is not the God of I WAS; He is the God of I AM.
Our God is always doing something new.
God is also doing a new work in us.
The infinately creative God, expressing Himself.
Just look at yourself.
Do you realize there are over 6,000,000,000 people in this world?
6 BILLION people!
And do you know there is no one like you?
God could have just made one fingerprint and put it on all of us.
What purpose in the world does a fingerprint do, and why would he have to have 12 billion different fingerprints?
In fact, has there ever been a fingerprint just like yours?
Infinitely creative God.
You are special because God has made you individually.
The Psalmist said, “Before I ever was born, You saw me in the womb.”
You see, God created each one of us to accomplish His individual purpose.
I want to remind you this morning God made YOU.
You are not a DNA accident.
You are not the outcome of 2 chromosomes.
You are designed specifically the way God wanted you to be made.
Listen – if all of us are different and God is always doing something new, God uses each one of us to do something different.
Does that make sense?
See, if I do something and Brother Don does something, they’re totally different, aren’t they?
In fact, if you were to give Brother Don and me the same passage, and we’re supposed to preach from it, would it be the exact same sermon?
No! His would be much better than mine!
It would be different.
If you and I were to go and to do any specific task, we would do it different.
Is that bad?
No! It’s the way God intended it.
I had a good friend – and he still is a good friend!
– who is in East Texas and a preacher.
When he preaches, he rolls his Rs.
That’s the only time he rolls his Rs, is when he’s preaching…because he learned to copy another preacher who happened to have an accent and rolled his Rs.
God doesn’t want you to be copying anyone else.
When I was in Russia a few years ago, the translator that I had – a young man about 21 years old, very articulate, but with an extremely strong British accent.
I asked him, “Where did you study?”
I assumed that I studied abroad.
He said, “No, I never left the country.”
“Where did this strong British accent come from?”
He said, “I learned English from a British professor who had a very strong British accent.”
And so he picked up that accent.
So here was a Russian with a British accent speaking English!
Listen, God made you to do a special work, and He hasn’t stopped.
God wants to do a work through you until the day you die.
Now here’s the really scary news to some of you who might think you’ve retired.
When God is done doing what He wants to do in you and through you, He’s going to take you home.
SO – if you begin confessing, “I’ve done everything I need to do,” guess where next step is?
Some of you just had a brand new revelation of all that God wants you to do!
You see, I know that God has lots of things for me to do.
And He has lots of things for you to do.
And we need to be listening and open because our God is the God of NOW.
He wants to do things in us and through us every day.
And He wants to do a new work in this church.
Do you believe that?
He wants to do a new work in Fort Worth.
He wants to do a new work in the United States.
If we ever needed a fresh move of God, it is now.
We need His presence; we need His move.
Listen, I believe that God wants to do that.
I don’t think that God looks down and says, “Well, I wish – I’d LIKE to do a revival, but I don’t know.
Maybe next time.”
He’s not tired.
He doesn’t have a scale that says, “I’ll bring a revival every 50 years or 100 years.”
He’s waiting on one group of people.
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