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As we make our way through the month of May, and with each week approach a topic of importance within Christianity...
Today we come to the topic of - MISSIONS
I’m quite confident that when we speak of MISSIONS - in Christian circles - our minds automatically think about...
flying overseas
trecking thru the jungle
…and finding a tribe to witness to
Now as a church - we sponsor a missionary who is working over in England (Stephanie Luke)
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And so I think WE think - OVERSEAS - when we hear about MISSIONS...
That’s - potentially - accurate....BUT...
We need to know - that while MISSIONS CAN entail that....
Missions ALSO entails walking out your front door, and heading to your neighbors house.
…or across the street
MISSIONS has ALWAYS been about proclaiming Jesus - both FAR - AND Near....
and that’s a good thing...
Why are we even ABLE to read the Bible in the English language?
- MISSIONS
How did the Gospel go from Jerusalem - to Columbia Station?
MISSIONS
See nothing has changed - in all this time....
All believers are CONNECTED and involved in the same MINISTRY...
We’re ALL IN MINISTRY = and so - if I ever ask you - How’s your ministry going?
And you think - I don’t remember signing up for a ministry....
Just know - you ARE in ministry
The Ministry of Reconciliation
It’s a ministry of DECLARING the message of Jesus - to the lost!
WHICH MEANS:
SLIDE: MISSIONS: A Call To Obey Christ
MISSIONS
We keep hearing this same TRUTH - over and over again in our current Bible Study with Mark Fender...
And it’s something we need to ALWAYS be REMINDED of...
why?
Because i think by-and-large - we’re comfortable…IN the WORLD
In our culture - we’d much rather CURL UP - on the couch - all cozy...
...with our hot cup of Christianity - and sip it all day long...
We don’t typically have this sense of URGENCY…in our walks of faith
Because we rarely share our faith...
See - I think the MORE WE SHARE our faith - the more clearly we’ll see Jesus...
And the more clearly we see Jesus - the more URGENT our lives will become - for Him!
And MISSIONS - is really just a way to communicate - the Ministry of Reconciliation!
It’s the call - placed on each BELIEVER - to - GO
We’re called to - MAKE Disciples!!
And it’s not a suggestion here in the text...
It’s an IMPERATIVE verb...
Which means - our GOING - equates to - OBEDIENCE!
…and to NOT GO - is disobedience!
SEE - BEFORE Jesus walked the earth - the CALL was - to GO
ABRAHAM:
MOSES:
Well - Moses eventually died....
JOSHUA:
Fast forward to the ministry of Christ…when Christ walked the earth....and that CALL to GO - changed to what??
PRETTY CLEAR no?
The call from the mouth of Jesus was - FOLLOW ME!
And that CALL - a call to OBEY or NOT obey...
Obedience was on the line...
When the God of the universe says - FOLLOW ME....
He’s not ASKING!
BUT THEN - Jesus went away…He KNEW He would be going away....
and before He did…a NEW COMMAND came along....just like the first!
Before Christ - GO
With Christ - FOLLOW ME
Post Christ - GO
Why “GO”??
Because God has chosen to USE us for His purposes...
We see here that God makes His appeal - THRU us!
NOW - What is that APPEAL?
SLIDE: MISSIONS: A Call to Be Reconciled to Christ
MISSIONS
As we saw before - We ALL have been given a Ministry to walk in...
To be RECONCILED:
is to reestablish a close relationship
to be ACCEPTED
And so THINK about OT reconciliation...
How did that take place?
We think about the Cleansing rituals...
If someone was UNCLEAN according to Jewish Law - they would have to bathe and perform this ritual cleansing!
If that took place = THEN that person could REJOIN the group...
There was RECONCILIATION...
What is happening here?
This is OT - Reconciliation!
It was TEMPORARY - and so it was a FORM / a SHADOW of what was to COME IN CHRIST!
And yet while it points to Christ - It ALSO points to the SIN of MANKIND.
NOTHING has CHANGED!
The world STILL NEEDS to be RECONCILED to God!
BUT NOW - we don’t use a SCAPEGOAT!
NOW - we know the LAMB of God has taken away the SINS of those who believe!!
The CALL that goes out to the world - THROUGH US - is this:
BE reconciled to God - In Christ!!
The Name of Jesus Christ!
And so - MISSIONS - is...
A Call to Obey Jesus
A Call to be Reconciled to Jesus
But HOW do we do this?
MISSIONS: A Call to Rely on Christ
MISSIONS
We should know that the Ministry of Reconciliation that we’ve all been called INTO...
Is POWERED by the Holy Spirit
The Bible tells us that even the Ministry of Jesus Christ - on this earth - was POWERED by the Holy Spirit
When Jesus SENT the apostles out into the world…He said...
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