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I. God sets the agenda.
A. God has an agenda, and will fulfill it.
He will either work through you or despite you.
Illus: A few years back I was being interviewed and a person asked me, what one word I would use to describe the church.
I thought about love.
We should be loving.
We should display the love of God to a broken and dark world.
I thought about truth.
At the center of the church is the sermon from Scripture expounding God’s Word.
I chose to use the word missionary.
Everything we do at church is around God’s mission, his agenda.
Just as he sent out the Israelites with a specific job, He has given us a job, a mission, and agenda today.
God is going to accomplish his mission.
He did with Israel, and He will today.
Israel rejected God’s plan choosing their own wisdom over God’s so God fulfilled His plan despite the people we wanted to work through.
Today we reject God’s agenda in pursuit of our own agendas.
If we continue to reject God’s agenda, we will be a people God works despite of.
B. When God works through you, He will not fail.
Illus: I believe the reason that we do not accomplish God’s mission is because we do not truly have faith in God.
Yes we believe that God saves us from our sin.
Yes we believe in principle that Jesus is working in the hearts of men and women.
Does God change the heart?
Is God active and at work in the world today?
We don’t have a big enough view of God.
If we actually believed that God changes hearts and that He would accomplish his mission, we would boldly go out and share the gospel, and also we would share it far more often.
The reason we are not apart of God’s mission for us is because deep down we doubt whether God will work.
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Fear and doubt keep us from faith.
A. When we fear, our eyes are on the obstacles and not on the God of all power.
Illus: We are living in a day of fear.
It’s funny the things we fear.
We fear losing the comfort we enjoy.
We fear awkwardness in relationship after sharing the gospel.
We fear that true faith would mean sacrifice in our lives.
We fear politics.
Truthfully we have come to embrace the ease of nominal faith.
We go to church, get saved, give God enough to ease our consciences, and settle for a faith that does not resemble the call Jesus has before us.
We fear
If we want to become real followers of God, it will mean facing the fear and stepping out of nominal faith.
It will require us to go beyond the comfort of our own strength and trusting that God will provide and protect us as we follow Him.
B. What keeps us from accomplishing God’s mission today?
Illus: I can get the fear of the Israelites.
They were facing real life and death threats.
We have become crippled by comfort allowing the talking heads, digital distractions, and ease of life to become so pervasive in our lives that we no longer pursue the mission of God.
Following God is a choice.
The Israelites eyes were not on God but on the enemies greater than them.
They forgot that their God was greater.
Where are your eyes fixed today?
Most of our eyes are so consumed by the digitized voices on television, the internet, and social media that we no longer hear the call of God to daily faith in Him.
If the world has so consumed us that we have lost the call to sacrifice all for the crucified saviour then we are no different from the cowering scouts.
III.
Our fear leads to rebellion against God.
When fear controls your heart, you exchange the true God for false gods.
Illus: We are called to live in fear.
wait what?
we are called to live in the fear of God.
It is to understand the pure power and sovereignty of God that all things fade compare to it.
Our problem is that we take our eyes off God and fear things that are not God.
We exchange the fear of God for fear of things which God is sovereign over.
What consumes your heart today, take it and place it in God’s hands.
He’s got it.
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