Getting the Big Picture

Welcome to the intensified Catholic child can link my name January. Today we go back to basic reminding believers in Jesus and our purpose for living with an interest in scriptural help from Ephesians chapter 1 in getting the big picture.

As you look at your life at this particular moment in your life would you say that you are trying to fit God into your plans by answering your prayer meeting your needs and so whole or could you say that you honestly and truly are trying to fit your life into God's plans are you trying to fit God into your plans. Are you trying to fit your life in the God's plan know most of all is a very quick glance all on trying to fit my life in the God's plans whatever goggles that's what I and we say that, and more than likely we are rather wrong sincere about.

But as we go through this message I want you to ask yourself the question, Lord, what is the truth about what I'm doing. What is the real truth about whose plans am I concerned about am I really trying to fit my life into your plan or am I saying, Lord, hear my plans and I want you to fit into what I had figured out the reason I called is getting the big picture because I believe that's exactly what it's all about what's amazing what we think about our life, but in Ephesians chapter 1). Here is God's big picture for your life. So I want us to see. First of all, here God's big picture of your life. From his viewpoint, and therefore, things I want to say about that.

So you just jot these words down and I as we go along. You may find something that may be applicable to you that you want the job done. Under these words and the first word is this, and that is God's purpose in this be overall plan appears what is the big picture from God's point of view.

The big picture begins with God's overall purpose for mankind.

What is overall, God's overall purpose for mankind.

Look, if you will, in verse six to start with.

He says to the praise of the glory of his grace. Then if you look in verse 12 he says that we should be to the praise of his glory first trusted in Christ Jesus, and that many of the verses that mention the glory of God. I want you to watch and listen carefully, because what I will do.

I want to send the scale to show you what I'm sure talking about in God's big picture of events God's ultimate purpose for mankind for all mankind is that we would glorify God to praise him to worship him to honor him. He says his ultimate purpose is to glorify himself and listen. If God's ultimate purpose for mankind to glorify himself. That should've started in the creation and it did a perfect world to the start of mankind to absolutely perfect people, God's purpose for mankind.

God's ultimate purpose is big picture for you is to glorify him that has that going to come the past.

If we're going to glorify God, we must reflect by our life, we must reflect the character of God, how are we going to reflect the character of God in Romans 829 he says that he predestinated us before the foundation of the world that we would be conformed to his likeness as God sits and stands and shapes in the likeness of his son Jesus Christ. We are going to reflect the Lord God himself did not Jesus say if you have seen me using the father. He says it is my will that we would be one even as the father and I want if we are going to glorify him. We must reflect him and all the reflect him. We must be shaken. The likeness of Jesus Christ.

If we want to be shaken to the likeness of Jesus Christ.

We must know God through the Lord Jesus Christ. So they glorify him.

I must reflect him to reflect him I was reshaping the image of his son and of the shaken image of his son means that I must know him by personal experience and salvation in sanctification, and ultimately in glorification.

God's big purpose for your life and my life is not pleasure is not profit. It is not. Prominence is not prestige is not any of those things if you look around you and see what the world is grappling for all you have to do is the turn of the other direction and see the glory of God, and know that the world is heading one way, and God's people are to be headed the other way to glorify God. But you see, not only does the lost men not know that's God's ultimate purpose, glory, but often times we believers do not even realize that we take upon ourselves the countenance and the color and the shades we take upon ourselves the attitude, the whole system of the world.

The world system of the Bible speaks of his society minus God and the believer and the church can take on the shades and the color of the world society minus God and then wonder why God is not pleased why is it that when our life is not being fulfilled.

Why things are going just right because when Almighty God brought you into this world. He pre-aided you for him self not for yourself the ministries of looking Ephesians chapter 1 beginning in verse four he says according as he hath chosen, in whom, in him before the what the foundation of the world that we should be what holy and one without blame before him in love… What's this before.

This world ever began the creation of the world which is God's perfect demonstration of his power and his beauty, his Majesty, he says, before the foundation of the world. He chose us in Christ Jesus, God's ultimate purpose. Even before he put into reality what was in his infinite mind was that you and I would glorify him. God has an ultimate purpose and his purpose is that he might be glorified by that we might reflect his image by being conformed to his likeness by knowing God in salvation, sanctification, and glorification. But if I should ask you tomorrow morning as you get to go to work.

Why would you go reasonable to make a living and I can ask you a whole series of questions and more than likely you give me a very honest answer, and more than likely you have to say will. Somewhere along the way, I'm sure of the glorify God. But how do I glorify God in the job that I have with my friend the circumstances of modeling God knows all about that. You see it. He chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world God has rights only your life and my life.

One of Alice's it is my own life.

I'll do what I please. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Nobody could say anything that would be more out of keeping with God's purpose and romanticize my life. I'll do what I please, because God created you to glorify him. And if your life is not glorifying him what you have decided you out of God's big picture and his big picture is that the ultimate purpose of your life in my life is the glorify all mighty God. Now that's God's ultimate purpose, but the second thing I want you to jot down is the problem. What is the problem the problem that God has with man. Here's the problem when God could ever believe he created two perfect individuals and put them in a perfect environment but I do believe meta-decision and here's the decision they made.

They made the same decision that people make all the time they determined to live their life in the spirit of independence that is Satan said you could be like God, having the knowledge of good and evil and so instead of trusting and depending upon Almighty God, who provided absolutely and perfectly, who had an eternity of joy and bliss for them.

They chose to take the route of independence and decide there some things they could do on their own. Every time you and I deliberately disobeyed God what we're doing is we're exercising independence of God. We are saying at this point my life I can do it my way.

At this point in my life. I think I'll make this choice, independence, my friend. God doesn't want his people living independent in the watchlist. If God created you for himself and he says you're not your own.

You about the price and his purpose is that he might be glorified to the praise of his glory there. We are to glorify him.

How can I live independent from the purpose and plan of God and at the same time glorify God. God's concept is that we are down here to reflect him that when somebody needs you and me. They need at least some reflection of Almighty God. Jesus said if you see me using the father shaken the likeness of Jesus Christ in our life is not glorifying him. We don't have the big picture out of the will of God out of God's ultimate purpose, doing our own thing independently making our way and God will allow you to wreck and ruin your life if you choose and let me say this, you may not wreck your life as far as the world is concerned, if you and I live our lives independently of God. One of these days we stand before even though he was saying. What is God going to say when you spent your life. We spend our lives doing religious things in carrying out religious activities and doing some things are good.

We were say. But the question is, did we glorify God. You see we start peeling off the layers of our own self peeling off the layers of our own deceit, peeling off the layers. The cake layers of time and thought processes: shaded by the world we get Arnold to the inside.

Sometimes we will be shocked at what we find motivated myself the direction of self and independence break rebellion toward God, having in my way all plastered over imputed with religion but only inside it was me having my way giving God just enough time and money and no service to please him, placating him, keeping my back while I do my thing and enjoyed under the guise of being a Christian, having been baptized sprinkled portal number four 567-8910 different churches being a very religious man accepted as readjustment but not glorifying God. He says will hey stubble combustible materials. When you NASCO the presence of God were the works for us to bring him was the real seeking for ourselves.

It wasn't for him was the driving motivation of my life. I wanted to bring the always it for the glory of God. We know what you noticing.

And that's God's plan and his great great big picture what is God's plan we see his purpose is to glorify the problem is man's independence to do what he chooses when he chooses as he chooses. But what is God's great plan. God's big plan was included the creation of the world God's perfect environment for God's perfect plan, but man failed to listen if you go back to vision chapter want to look if you will, in verse seven he says in the room that is in Christ, we have redemption through the blood, the forgiveness of sin, the watchlist, he says, before the foundation world. He chose us where he chose us in Christ is at the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ and all of us have had the privilege of getting in God's big picture and getting into his plan. The cross is man's opportunity is the only place it is the only event in time that makes it possible for sinful independent file, wicked man to get in the God's big picture of glorifying him. God created you and is ultimate divine supernatural divine omniscience for the whole world needs is the glorify and in his plan is the cross that makes it possible for every single person limited in the face of the earth, the shed blood of Jesus Christ to have their sins forgiven and the word redeem means he brought us back.

He bought us back unto himself because having craters we belong to him, but he bought his back spiritually from sin that we might be a new creation old things passed away behold everything's become.

Likewise, in the splendors the church listeners the creation, then the cross because men fail in the whole body of Christ. Look, if you are in second grade. In chapter 5 he says beginning in verse 18.

I watch this because you see all of us have the purpose of glorifying God and all things are of God, who hath reconciled that is brought back into fellowship with him, reconciled us to himself, that is, God reached down in our sinfulness and brought us back into the relationship with them new creatures in Christ reconcile his unto himself by Jesus Christ, and has given to us. The one the ministry of reconciliation. Let me ask a question upon whom does the ministry of reconciliation fall the whole body of Christ whom Missy given the message of reconciliation. The whole body of Christ.

I keep reading. Now then we are ambassadors that is sent with credentialed representatives sit with credentials for he says for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us.

We pray you in Christ to be reconciled to God, which means this visit watchmen now.

He says his ultimate purpose glorify God and be glorified, reflecting him to reflect reflect him conformed to his likeness how we can pull this likeness. Knowing who is the problem is sin, but the cross is made possible for the getting God's big picture in God's big picture.

He says as a part of the body of Christ which every believer is we have a ministry doing what the ministry of reconciliation. We have a message of reconciliation. He says in this chapter that God has chosen you and you and you and you and you and all of us in his spare as his substitutes. In our society and our home and our church in our city and our nation. He's chosen, the one God in Christ Jesus through us.

We would be the vessels of reconciliation to the unsaved that God through was bringing him to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ that God would use us to reconcile them, bring them back in the fellowship of God that that's God's ultimate plan and that's the big picture for the church. The big picture for the church's work the same as it is for the individual to glorify God. The ministry of the church, reconciling men the God that he might be glorified.

The minister, the church is what reconciling men to the Lord God Almighty, in order that those who reconcile about their life would glorify God in eternity. You see it. We do not see the big picture.

We'll spend our lying churches will have programs and organizations and staff and spend money and do many other things and miss God's ultimate picture and the whole thing will be one total waste God's plan for the individuals to glorify him. God's plan for his church is to glorify him and he says the last part of that is that ultimately the ultimate consummation of all of life and all the time and eternity will be donning glorify him back if you will, is not vision chapter 1 he says in verse nine, having made known unto us the mystery of his will.

What is the mystery according to his good pleasure, which he had purposed in himself that in the dispensation that binds segments of time, the way God operates them in the fullness of times he God might gather together in one Christ Jesus, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even him that big picture is from God's point of view that there will one day all of us will be one in Christ Jesus and what he says in Philippians chapter 2, he says in that last day.

He says there will come a time when every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of who, to the glory of God the father God's big picture is that all of life in creation and humanity in the body of Christ. All glorify God but you and I live in a world system that is anti-God is Christian humanism on the part of some religious save but going about their life as if all of life still around them. You see the world system says that life centers around me and the Bible says that the world revolves around Almighty God's glory and the church of the Lord Jesus Christ ought to be living, sitting in our society. In such a way that the world may know in this unbelieving, evil age Almighty God is God, he is to be glorified and will not be ignored by any other way except researcher, but some people will take all of eternity and wrap it up in one lifetime of 60 or 40 or 30, sometimes 30 years and spend their life gratifying the face getting this doing of the doing all these things and so they can call the pleasure they can and all of a sudden one day they diagnosed sprinkler help and they missed the whole part of being alive.

Something almost as tragic as that is how the Christians of miss the whole point and they'll stand before God with into hands of the delight because they're motivated by everything that came on the track besides Jesus Christ is just real simple. His goal for you and me is this that we would surrender all of our plans. All of our goals.

All of our design achievements to say Lord here is my life. Do whatever is necessary to fit this into your big picture so that for eternity.

My life would glorify you and reflect your son, who is the perfect reflection of who you are, my friend.

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