R1643 The Heart of a Missionary

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God takes everything not service this morning. A young 19-year-old young man by the name of Drake time and Davies talk to the Lord Jesus Christ.

God takes that moment right.

Right said I did not talk to Jesus. God says I brought you now human inclination by human inclination is I want to be able to say you know what I'm getting give this money but I need to know exactly what's going to happen and whether that's going to go there.

This is going to go abroad to just give it take your hands off. Sometimes we say listen, I don't so I I want to go and serve. And I'm going to do this, but I want you to know that if I do go and serve. II really hope that good sweet tea. They visit they don't have sweet tea that I can't do anything unless I can add suite D Fort Hood civilly means you, you know we do that we that's us by nature. I do that you do that we will do that all of us. We will do that it's a human it's a human inclination to do that I was sharing this morning with some of our folks and I said, you know, our inclination is real.

Say yes Lord, and then Lord I'm going to do it as long as I can get all my ducks in a row. Well, I've gone through the Scriptures several times I cannot for the life of me find the duct in the Bible and then Steve Skinner came up to me and he said pasta your so wrong. There is a duck in the biologic way. He said will you know. King Saul came and got a spear and through the David and he ducked it out again. You know what can I say Jacob will use that later on I didn't you know there's only one dock as far as I'm concerned, and she lives with me and she's the most beautiful thing I've ever been around.

I want to show you something really amazing today cannot do that. I'm just sharing from a halter and I'm unpacking and I've got this all in my mind all the students in these adults and all the sacrifice and always giving this mission. These missionaries these people. I see you but I tell you this, God sees us and I'm convinced today there's someone here right now that God's waiting for you just to simply say yes give your life to Christ. So yesterday give your heart to Jesus.

Now some of you.

God is just waiting for you to say yes. I will give all be financially some of you. God is just waiting to say when you go would you serve will you do this when you get alongside Jesus waiting for you to say not what just yes all good God of the found the walk. He always does something I really believe it. I believe that there is someone here today. God is waiting for you to say yes I'll just lay down my life.

I'll give it all up for you all the right turn in your Bibles to acts chapter 13, you need to see this in your body. Many illustrations in the Bible of God calling people out and setting them apart and sending them to places not only in their home in their backyard, but in the neighbors yards across the street at the bridge serving people going to Georgia headed down to Miami going to Arab nations going to the Middle East. The far east, the near East going to Africa going to India going to Turkey. God tells us many reasons gives us a lot of a lot of examples in next chapter 13 we read about to such people that God said apart. Let me read it to you. It's a fantastic story. You ready for this. Acts 13. In verse one in the church at Spartanburg. Sorry I misread that in the church at Antioch. In this occasion. There were prophets and teachers general. Some of them, Barnabas, Simeon Lucius of Cyrene median and also soul I watch this while they were worshiping the Lord, praying, fostering the Holy Spirit, said Sam. Apart from me. Jesus, Barnabas, and soul for the one to which I have a cold day. So often they had fostered and prayed by place their hands on them and they sent them all and then sent on their way by the Holy Spirit what Chabad got involved immediately went down to some Lucian sailed from there to Cyprus and when I arrived at Salama's. They proclaim the word of God in the Jewish synagogues and by the way John and all the others accompanied them and move with them and picked up paintbrushes and carried tables and drove vans and encouraged and gave and got alongside with them. The North American Mission Board I'm in, just quote you are going on a piece of paper you sweat the North American Mission Board: submission me. Okay you ready for this. A person who, in response to God's cool and giftedness leaves his or her comfort zone and crosses cultural, geographical or other barriers in order to proclaim the gospel and live out the Christian witness in obedience to the great commission was a great commission Jesus said, going to all the world you go into all the world and go from way from Jerusalem. It's right where you're at x-ray was speaking to Judea, that's Georgia, Alabama, New Mexico and Samaria. That's like getting out there toward Minnesota and Massachusetts and California and to the uttermost parts of the world that's Mexico and the Caribbean and Canada and Europe and Asia. That's the wound.

A person who, in response to God's call and gifting leaves his or her comfort zone bonds are asking some of you to leave your comfort zone. That's a tough deal right on so the call to cross cultural, geographical or other barriers in order to proclaim the gospel and live actual Christian witness in obedience to the great commission. So let's take a quick look at these guys in the Bible. These missionaries couple of things I want you to note about the first rule. They were properly embedded that word embedded means they were in the same house in the right house to pull together and where was that the Bible says they were in the church at Antioch. They were in the church.

They were part of the church and what God is trying to tell us about the heart of a missionary is that the local body of Christ is fundamentally part of God's plan in what God wants to do to reach people like these boys and goes in Kentucky. Fantastic and it all comes out of the heart of the low gathering of the local church because I want to tell you something. Folks listen to this carefully listen to this carefully. Nobody in this world.

No politician, no Prime Minister, no president, no individual, no, no, in America today is going to be able to do for America for for our people for the nations of the world that God and his people are designed to do by God's design.

This is God's way of bringing you the good news the gospel of this incredible change that we have even through the Lord Jesus Christ. It comes out of the heartbeat of you looking at us. You know what's so beautiful about going up to Kentucky thing that I love, perhaps most of all is our young people go and serve in churches and their own. These beautiful little churches stuck away some of the menu, turn the corner and there they all they situated next to rivers and lakes and on mountainsides and in valleys.

There are just beautiful churches everywhere you know, my friends, you can travel all across America today and you going to find churches, just like the Spartanburg's full of them. We see them everywhere.

It's part of God's plan and you know that God does when God's people gather. God calls God's people out from among the people to join arms with the people to do the work of God. How about you, this is serious business. This is the greatest joy in the world.

The church is God's plan.

These missionaries were embedded in the local church but not any that they were seriously seeking. Did you notice here in verse two. The Bible says while they were worshiping the Lord, you know, when I came in to the service I coming through that infants, they because I'm coming from over the road and boy I'm hurrying to get over yeah I walk through that door and because this incredible band of my friends. I look over here and I see Hannah and I see Chris and then I see Lindsay and I see the team I'm telling you, and I just get a hold up in this amazing time of worship. I listen to Jacob getting up.

Welcoming everybody in talking about giving and thanking one another for being here and then I walk out and I get up here and I stand here and on the lookout and I see God's people worshiping seeking God's face. Watch out, watch out guards at work. Now we assuming that God one call you out when you watching the ballgame. I didn't say that God goals people while worshiping under a tree. God will call you when you're at the beach God will call you taking an overseas trip, God will call you know but I'm just telling you summing God's plan with these missionaries. They were properly embedded. They were seriously seeking God's face. I cannot make you seek God right now. Did you know that I cannot stop your mind being distracted. I cannot stop you sitting here being preoccupied. We all bring with us. All of these things there is somebody right now I feel in my heart is somebody right now, you courts should your mind is so full of everything you know this probably someone here today use your mind is full of hurt your heart is full of food you preoccupied. Maybe you've got something coming up maybe you leaving the soft moon making me jealous because you fixing to go down the beach by meal cause packed and ready, but you can only get in your unit at 4 o'clock the soft moon so there was no point in leaving and 1 o'clock so you said well I might as well go to church and you claim, didn't you. You know what happened to me what happened to me I mean I was searching in all different places where this beautiful lady who prayed for me and love me and took me by the hand and then I went back to church.

God not any change my life. But he also say this and saying yes to Jesus is the best thing any of us can do, please forgive the interruption will be back with the rest of today's message with Dr. Don Wilton in just a moment the doctor done once me to remind you that we are here to have an interactive conversation with you.

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Bible tells us right. The second part of basic them up.

I don't know where these young people are going to go, we don't know anything beyond right now we don't need to, but I'll tell you what God is sitting them apart with their width together with the under good that's our job that's our responsibility. They would never see the path they were spiritually guided from that moment, look at this for the Bible says the two of them seem to only away by the Holy Spirit. You know I keep going back. I'm telling you this in the earlier service. We rebaptized a wonderful man. We watched them being baptized at 9 o'clock this morning and this man I don't know a lot about them, but he's a wonderful man but he said he is really gone through things and he's been struggling been struggling with with addition with addictions and and with all kinds of things he's attorneys life of the cross and then he was baptized that I looked up at him and I think them I am I frame. I just want to tell you this if God before you can be against you. So these two people. They said yes they were embedded in the church that were seriously seeking God.

God's people got around them and lay their hands on them and sent them about and God said, I got it from now on all you who can be against you. Somebody here means that word right now because of what you do with right you dealing with something in your heart and stuff difficult arguments. It hurts you don't know how you cope with that marriage anymore. You can overcome that sickness.

You can be reconciled to that person. You know how you get to make the ends meet. You don't know which way to turn. You don't know whether you should go to this place or that place if God before you can be against you. The Holy Spirit said I bought it, you just lay your hands on them and send them off.

I got was the Bible say when they went off. I was singularly focused and I love that verse. I'm looking for a caring verse five. I was singularly focused.

The Bible sees when they arrived at Salama's. They proclaimed the word of God Bible says of these two in this case, you know they were embedded and they were seeking God's facing prayer and fasting, and worship and and and they were prayed over and they were sent out in the spirit of God took control of them and when they arrive.

Wherever it was they need to because they were they would just focused on the word of God.

Don't don't don't reduce this coming to me now okay but I hope I hope you understand that on trying to be very focused today on sharing with you that this Jesus not only loves this God of the Bible that he's got a great plan for you and what he wants for you to do is to take on the heart of a missionary say yes 40s are asking you to do and you'll notice one more thing. They were wonderfully helped. They were wonderfully helped write throughout all the stories you going to see us everywhere.

Everywhere you know guys you look at everybody look at me right now and I can't see off in a salad. Do I have to look at you. You're just look at me for sick I'm one person on one rock so I just happen to be privileged to be the pasta of this wonderful church you look at me and you say there it is not the me tell you how this works. You know how this works. This is how this works you looking at God's plan here. I will wonderfully helped one to tell you some first floor. I want to thank you, you know, I might be the one appeared doing the talking and I might be the leader guys don't even think that for a minute. It's us. We will do it.

I want you to know that I have dedicated the rest of my life, literally would live fiber lift I'm dedicating to raising up these young people we talking about I'm investing there and you know how I'm going to do that got done, raise your hands. So yes, Gracia is the any person older than all been mugged in the ages to any person you older than 50, who might say all good with you pasta I I get it if you'd if let me tell you something. Folks if if the future of this church, this community and our nation was resting on the shoulders of St. Phillips, Jacob, this team. These young people I'm in, you got my money my time by influence by help my prayers.

It actually doesn't matter to me watch this watch this, the heart of a missionary notes, not about me, about us, not just those young people about you and me, and announced to you. Time is come, guys.

That's a powerful phrase. The time is, and perhaps you've heard, not just the pastor Dr. Don Wilton but the Lord has mentioned to you the time is come for you make a decision for Jesus Christ know that we here to connect with you to answer questions to pray with you anytime at 866-899-WORD. That's 866-899-WORD 9673 or online@twonline.org that you heard this great teaching from Dr. Wilson.

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Dear God, I know that Iversen and I know that Jesus died for me cross today. I repainted my sin and by faith I receive you into my phone in Jesus night, my friend.

I welcome you today into the family of God.

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