A0406_Regions Beyond
Date: 19th October 2008 (Sunday PM) Ref: A0406
Place: Kambah P.S.
Title: Regions Beyond
Text: & 2 Corinthians 10:15-16
Illust: Why do we do what we do? – Why do we go on outreach? Hand out flyers, advertise in the paper, have revivals?
I. Regions Beyond
A. Local Focus
i. Saved for a purpose. – Need to understand that all of us have a requirement to be fruitful, to follow and serve Jesus Christ. – Call Him Lord & commit to let Him be Lord. – You will do His Will rather than your own.
ii. His will is that you & I would bear much fruit
John 15:16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, …. (NKJV)
iii. Need to focus on our immediate friends & family, your neighbours, the city that we live in.
Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, ….” (NKJV)
Jerusalem was the city the disciples were in. Jesus is commanding them to be a witness in their city / neighbourhood – This needs to be so with us.
B. Global Vision
i. We have a local focus to be fruitful but we have to lift up our eyes & see the greater calling – & vs 16. – The regions beyond you. – The white harvest fields of the world.
ii. The call to world evangelism. – Our focus locally must be so that we can be more effective globally. – Greater resource – Human & financial – Greater impact.
iii. Purpose of putting the Newsletters from Fiji / Solomon Islands on back table/ board – Stir you / encourage you re what God is doing in the regions beyond.
Trip planned for Solomon Islands – February 12th to 19th – Could you come?
II. DVD: Regions Beyond – Fiji
III. White Fields
A. Increased Faith
i. & vs 15. Paul makes the link that the increased faith of the people has a direct impact on his ability to reach the regions beyond. – We need to be a people that take Jesus at His word.
Mark 16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. (NKJV)
ii. Jesus gave the Great Commission. – He is the one who commands you to go into all the world. – It must be possible to do what He wants. – Need to have faith that He will help us.
B. Filled with the Spirit
i. The power of the Holy Spirit. – He is the enabler. It is in His power & ability that we can have the confidence to fix our eyes unto the ends of the earth.
Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (NKJV)
ii. Be about the Great Commission here in your family / friends and neighbours with a vision of the regions beyond.