Change The World

Jan 14, 2018

GOD AT WORK . . .

• God is always at work.
  • He is an active God because He is a redemptive God
    • He is often at work in ways I cannot see.
    • He is often at work in places I do not expect.

 

GOD’S INVITATION . . .

• God invites me to join Him where He is at work. (Acts 8:26-29)
  • God saves me so that I might join Him in His redemptive
    • Not to help Him in His redemptive work; He doesn’t need my help.
    • Not to do His redemptive work; I can’t redeem anyone.
    • But to join Him in His redemptive work; I’m an instrument in His hands.

 

• God will not invite me to join Him where He is not already at work.
  • Because He is the One who does the work.
  • Because what God calls us to join Him in won’t be wasted.
  • Because if God is already at work, then He has already gone before me and I have nothing to fear.

 

MY RESPONSE TO GOD’S INVITATION . . .

• Be sensitive to God’s promptings. (Acts 8:26, 29) Paul to Macedonia
  • A life fully surrendered to the Spirit is a life that is filled with the Spirit.

 

• Be quick to obey. (Acts 8:26-27, 30)
  • Delayed obedience is disobedience.

 

SOMETHING BIG . . .

• When God extends an invitation to me it is because He is up to something eternally significant.
  • He is up to something big in me.
  • He is up to something big in those to whom He sends

 

THE TAKEAWAY . . . 

If you want to change the world, join God where He’s at work.