WEEK #2. “Is your life your best answer to God in fulfilling the Great Commission?”

WEEK #2

“Is your life your best answer to God in fulfilling the Great Commission?”ARE YOU ON A MISSION?

JOB SATISFACTION?

OUR PROBLEM IS WE HAVE COME TO THINK ABOUT CAREER PATH RATHER THAN

A CALLING PATH

1. VALIDATION OF IDENTITY

2. SIGNIFICANCE OF PURPOSE

New Jerusalem

KINGDOM

GENESIS

Revelation 21

1. God’s Rule and Reign2. Christ-Centered (Messiah)3. Present- Restorative4. Future - Consummation

1. Defining the Kingdom

2. Work of the Kingdom

Luke 4- Jesus inaugurates His Public Ministry by reading Is. 61

The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners

a. Evangelism- proclaim good newsb. Compassion- bind up the broken-heartedc. Justice – release for the prisoners

3. Scope of the Kingdom

Matt. 13 – Parables explaining the Kingdom

Intensive and Initially Unassuming

Extensive and Spreads out to Bless others / The Whole World

4. Placement for Service

Matt. 13: 37-39SOWER / FIELD / SEED?

The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom.

John 3:16– “For God so loved the world, He sent JESUS.”

(John 20:21- For God so loved_________ HE SENT _________.)

5. Motivation for Work

Pearl of Great Price & Treasure in a Field

Sold Everything - Worship FUELS Work

This means we WORK as those Satisfied and at Peace with the Work Done for us. We are not working for ACCEPTANCE AND

SIGNIFICANCE, WE ARE NOW WORKING BECAUSE WE HAVE RECEIVED EVERYTHING WE HAVE ALWAYS WANTED.