2011 Anniversary Series Pt 1
To Do the Will of Him who Sent Me…
John 6:38 NLT
This is Destiny’ 9th year as a local church. Every year at this time I start asking myself the question; “Why do we exist as a church?
It is always imperative to keep a clear picture in front of you as to why you do what you do.
If you don’t, you will lose your passion, vision, & motivation to keep doing it with excellence.
Proverbs 29:18a KJV Where there is no vision, the people perish:
ASV Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint;
Have you not heard most every person who becomes a Christian make the statement; “I just want to do the Will of God…”
That is noble; but we better start figuring out what that really is & make sure that is what we are giving the best of our life to.
Every local church is really only the people that come together at that particular location to do the Will of Him Who Sent Us…
I. Jesus Came to be the Example for Us…
John 6:38 NLT For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will.
What did that mean exactly?
2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
Jesus had to come to live as the prime example that it is possible for a flesh person to live their life self-less so that a greater purpose can be fulfilled.
Jesus knew back then that the numbers where extreme with lost people… He also knows that today there is somewhere around 4.7 billion.
How concerned do you think HIS heart is for HIS local church to reach their part of this group of people?
2 Peter 3:9 CEV The Lord isn't slow about keeping his promises, as some people think he is. In fact, God is patient, because he wants everyone to turn from sin and no one to be lost.
Jesus heart is showing us what the Will of the Father is.
II. He is not here now…The Will of the Father is still critical!
John 17:17-19 NCV Make them ready for your service through your truth; your teaching is truth.18 I have sent them into the world, just as you sent me into the world. 19 For their sake, I am making myself ready to serve so that they can be ready for their service of the truth.
The local church is His body in the earth now. He established the church so that we would follow His example & continue what He did until He comes again.
John 14:12-14 NLT “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. 13 You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. 14 Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it!
Many times we use these different scriptures to stand for a need we have personally or for our immediate family.
But look at the context of what the Word is really looking at when you rightly divide it according to the Will of the Father…
2 Peter 3:9b CEV In fact, God is patient, because he wants everyone to turn from sin and no one to be lost.
The Will of the Father in our lives is that we have been sent to use our lives to seek out & rescue lost people that they would not die lost without God.
The things that our heavenly Father really wants to hear us crying out for, asking anything in His name & He will do it… is ideas, insights, & concepts of how to be more fruitful at bringing more people into relationship with Him.
Why would I be expected to do that??? Because we have all been sent by Him for that purpose.
III. Go therefore…
Matthew 28:18-20 NLT Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
I don’t think He means me…my husband, my pastor, or my youth pastor or small group leader is who has been set to do that.
I would hate to think that I decided to buy into that mode of wrong thinking & then stand before God & find out I was put in my local church to do the Will of my Heavenly Father but didn’t do it!
WOW!
Matthew 28:18-20 MSG Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: "God authorized and commanded me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I'll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age."
Then instruct them to do what??? Everything that I told you to be doing. According to God’s Word, it is everyone’s responsibility to get involved in participating in the church moving forward in what it is sent to do.
Remember Jesus training His future church or body while He was still here…
Luke 10:1-3 CEV Later the Lord chose seventy-two other followers and sent them out two by two to every town and village where he was about to go. 2He said to them: A large crop is in the fields, but there are only a few workers. Ask the Lord in charge of the harvest to send out workers to bring it in. 3Now go, but remember, I am sending you like lambs into a pack of wolves.
His desire is that we get an understanding of the power of God that has placed upon us & in us & go use it to demonstrate the reality of His presence to those who don’t know Him.
Ephesians 1:19-20 NCV And you will know that God's power is very great for us who believe. That power is the same as the great strength God used to raise Christ from the dead and put him at his right side in the heavenly world.
Do you really know what God’s purpose is for the body of believers HE has placed here in Destiny???
Here it goes…
To kick devil hinny in a major way; not just for your own life & benefit, but for all those around you.
1 John 3:8 NLT And you will know that God's power is very great for us who believe. That power is the same as the great strength God used to raise Christ from the dead and put him at his right side in the heavenly world.
We have been SENT to do the WILL of the ONE who SENT us…
Acts 9:17 NLT So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road, has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Who sent him??? Jesus! Who has sent you & me??? Jesus!
To do what??? The Will of the One who Sent us…
• You must really know Him in order to do His Will. Are you here & you want to really get to know Jesus so you can do His Will?
• I have COME to know Him…But I have not listened to the SENT by Him…
• I have allowed the business of my life, family, career, etc… get me side-tracked from the command that I have been SENT to do the WILL of Him who SENT me.
• You can come today & HE will set the record straight & renew the vision & passion to do what HE desires to do thru you.
