Mission Impossible ?
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We sometimes give up before we even start.
We look and say we can’t win or even make a difference.
The world is to tuff to overcome. But I wonder is it we can’t or is it we really just don’t have the confidence to take on the task?
The confidence to say I will do my best until the end!
Jesus gave us a job in Matthew 28:19-20 He said…
Matthew 28:19-20 NIV
19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
He said to go, not call them in.
But I like how the message puts it.
Matthew 28:19-20 (The Message)
19Go 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. 20Then 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.”
We wonder how can we pull it off, you know, How do I do it not how can God use my part in completing the game plan.
1. Where does our direction come from?
Who give us direction?
We sometimes seem to forget, Jesus said He would be with us until the end, so we need to grasp and understand it is He that will give us the strength as in…
Philippians 4:13 NIV
13I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
We can not give up, slow up or stop, for it is He who keeps us going.
2. But do you wonder how we do our part.
That is easy if we use scripture to give us the game plan.
1 Corinthians 9:19-23 NIV
19Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. 22To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. 23I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
1 Corinthians 9:19-23 (The Message)
19Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: 20religious, nonreligious, 21meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, 22the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn’t take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ—but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I’ve become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. 23I did all this because of the Message. I didn’t just want to talk about it; I wanted to be in on it!
3. How can we be in on being what ever someone needs?
To Be all things to all people to win some to Christ.
A class of little girls was learning to spell. They spelled a number of small words, such as “pig,” “cat,” “dog,” “cow,” and amused themselves by imitating the sounds that these animals make. Then little Mary was asked to spell “love.” She didn’t stop to give the letters, but ran and threw her arms around the teacher’s neck and kissed her on the cheek. “We spell ‘love’ that way at our house,” she said. The girls laughed, but the teacher said, “That is a beautiful way; but do you know another way to spell ‘love’?” “Oh, yes,” cried Mary, “I spell love this way,” and she began to put the books in order on her teacher’s desk. “I spell love by helping everybody when they need me.”
Beloved we can become all thing to all people when we become servants of all and to all. We must be willing to go to where they are and not expect them to come to us.
We are all a part of the team, the Body of Christ.
We all need to do our part to win, that is to win the lost to Christ.
We need to be in the game, not just observers.
(Talk about people watching the big game on TV and screaming at it, thinking, like they can really hear them.)
They are not a part of the game, they are just watching it and giving advice to something and someone they are not a part of.
Luke 10:2 NIV
2He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
Are you a worker? Are you in the Game?
Are you tired? Worn out? We need to remember…
Galatians 6:9&10 (The Message)
9So let’s not allow ourselves to get fatigued doing good. At the right time we will harvest a good crop if we don’t give up, or quit. 10Right now, therefore, every time we get the chance, let us work for the benefit of all, starting with the people closest to us in the community of faith.
In a far country lived a band of minstrels who traveled from town to town presenting music to make a living. They had not been doing well. Times were hard; there was little money for common folk to come to hear the minstrels, even though their fee was small. Attendance had been falling off, so early one evening the group met to discuss their plight. “I see no reason for opening tonight,” one said. “To make things even worse than they may have been, it is starting to snow. Who will venture out on a night like this?” “I agree,” another disheartened singer said. “Last night we performed for just a handful. Fewer will come tonight. Why not give back their meager fees and cancel the concert? No one can expect us to go on when just a few are in the audience.” “How can anyone do his best for so few?” a third inquired. Then he turned to another sitting beside him. “What do you think?” The man he appealed to, was older than the others. He looked straight at his troupe. “I know you are discouraged. I am too. But we have a responsibility to those who might come. We will go on. And we will do the best job of which we are capable. It is not the fault of those who come that others do not. They should not be punished with less than the best we can give.” Heartened by his words, the minstrels went ahead with their show. They never performed better. When the show was over and the small audience gone, the old man called his troupe to him. In his hand was a note, handed to him by one of the audience just before the doors closed behind him. “Listen to this, my friends!” Something electrifying in his tone of voice made them turn to him in anticipation. Slowly the old man read: “Thank you for a beautiful performance.” It was signed very simply—“Your King.”
We are called to GO……
Matthew 28:19 NIV
19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Can I count to try your best, to give your best in serving God? For we all are important as we serve and if we serve with an excited and optimistic attitude it will become contagious as others follow us and observe us. Then they to will join in and become a part of His team.
