Jim Moss - March 5, 2023
Surrender my plans and future
Nevertheless Surrender My Plans & Future Jim Moss / March 5th, 2023 John 10:1-18 NLT The desire to control things has eroded our sense of trust. You cannot seek to control people and love people well at the same time John 14:23 Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. The World Says: Trust yourself Follow your feelings / intuition Hustle More Chase your dream Take massive action God Says: Trust me Let me lead you Slow My yoke is easy, my burden is light Build my kingdom Come away with me Surrender says YES with my whole heart, with my whole mind, ALL the time. Luke 23:46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last. We’ll never be able to have a vision of surrender until we have an intimacy with our father God’s commands are not designed to restrict life or happiness; they are designed to preserve life and happiness. Is there something I need to trust you for? Is there a step of obedience I’m unwilling to take? NT Wright Most modern Christians imagine that the gospel is about God rescuing souls from this world to go and live with him somewhere else. The Bible, however, insists that God wants to come and make his home with us – and that he has launched this project through Jesus and the Spirit. Matthew 28 16Then the eleven disciples left for Galilee, going to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17When they saw him, they worshiped him—but some of them doubted! 18Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20Teach 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.” As people who have been transformed by the gospel and find our primary identity in Christ, we now join God in His kingdom mission to redeem all of creation. Missional living begins in the heart of God. It is fueled by a love for all of creation and a desire to restore what has been broken by sin. God sends His kingdom people into the world to bring the reality of God’s rule and reign wherever it is not present. Therefore, as image-bearers of God, we bring His kingdom—love, peace, justice, mercy, goodness, and compassion—to each and every place we go. It is God’s desire that all would hear the good news of His kingdom (evangelism) and experience new birth through the renewing work of the Holy Spirit (salvation). Through the work of the Spirit, we are taught to wholeheartedly follow and obey Jesus (sanctification) and go into all the world making disciples, proclaiming the good news of God’s kingdom (missional living). As the sent people of God, we rely on the Spirit living within us to empower us to live on mission. We go into every corner of the world to declare the kingdom of God, make disciples, baptize people, and teach them to walk in obedience to Christ. As a result of this missional mandate, we believe that every believer is a missionary: called by God to bring the gospel to each and every place we go. As we imitate the life of Jesus and proclaim the good news of the gospel, we push back the darkness and bring in the light of God’s kingdom to every corner of our world, city, community, workplace, and neighborhood. As the people of God live out this missional mandate to go and make disciples, God brings His kingdom to earth through His people, the church. Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God Be still, and know that I am Be still, and know Be still Be
From Series: "Nevertheless"
"Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done." (Luke 22:42 ESV) Gethsemane represents a place of surrender in the life of Jesus. It is the death before the death. It was in the garden where we see the reality of his struggle and how he prayed for deliverance and yet submitted himself to the will of the Father.