God’s Bucket List For You

Your Bucket List

Turn with me to First Timothy 6. On Tuesday I will have a birthday. I mention that because the verse we’re going to read hit me in a different way – in a way that it has never hit me before. It reminded me that there are things that I probably need to go back and do a self check on.

The verse is First Timothy 6:7. It says, “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.”

We brought nothing into this world and it is certain that we will carry nothing out. For some reason that verse has stayed with me for more than a week. I just keep coming back to it and thinking about it. As I think about this verse – “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out” –the thing that stuck that has with me is that the first doesn’t say anything about what we leave behind. It says we don’t bring anything and we don’t take anything, but it doesn’t say anything about what we leave behind.

So our birth and our death are bookends for the days in between. Our birth and our death our bookends for the days in between – the days we are living right now.

Most people when they reach a certain age they start talking about a “bucket list”. Webster’s dictionary says a “bucket list” is a number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime.

Now, you may have seen or heard something different than I have, but whenever someone talks about a “bucket list”, I haven’t heard anyone reference something spiritual as part of their bucket list. It’s always material. It’s always something that they want to do in this world.

Did you know that God has a Bucket List for each one of us? This book (held up the Bible) is filled with experiences and achievements that God has for you. And what we’re going to do is look at seven things on God’s bucket list for us. I am just whetting your appetite.

What is one of the things on God’s bucket list for His children?

? Matthew 4:4 – “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

Well, Brother Barry, why do you say That is a bucket list for God, for us? It’s because we have not achieved it. Can I get a witness? We have not achieved it. We are still not living by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. So for God, that is a bucket list for us.

? ??John 17:21-23. A “bucket list”. Repeating the definition. “A number of experiences or achievements that a person hopes to have or accomplish during their lifetime.”??????

One question that needs to be answered: “Why does God have a bucket list for us? If we achieve or accomplish the bucket list that God has for us, then what we read John 14:12. where Jesus says “the works that I do ye shall do also so,” will be a reality in our lives.

And ladies and gentlemen, God’s bucket list is going to be different for each one of us. I’m just pointing out some of the things that would be on God’s bucket list for all of us.

Now, John chapter 17 beginning with verse 21. Jesus is talking to the disciples Let’s start with verse 20. ??

(20) Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

Remember, we’re talking about God’s bucket list, what He wants us to experience and achieve in this lifetime.

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(21) That they all may be [What’s the next word?] one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be [What?] one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

(22) And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be [Paused so the congregation could say] one, even as we are [Paused so the congregation could say]one:

(23) I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in [Paused so the congregation could say] one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Another one of God’s bucket list is for us to be one in Him like Jesus was one in Him. That is God’s bucket list for us. If we are one in Him the way Jesus was one in Him, the things that Jesus accomplished for the Kingdom we will accomplish for the Kingdom.