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God’s Mission
In 1998, Steven Spielberg released a movie that would captivate the minds, hearts, and eyes of the American people.
I remember seeing a trailer for the movie and I was fascinated by the Story line.
Saving Private Ryan was a story about a group of WWII Soldiers who went behind enemy lines to rescue Private Ryan.
Ryan was the youngest of 4 boys.
His 3 brothers were all killed during the storming on the beach at Normandy.
So the powers that be decided that they needed to get Private Ryan back home to his mother so that she wouldn’t have to bury all of her children.
This was the mission.
Go and rescue Private Ryan so he can get home.
And the men sent on this mission were devoted to accomplishing that goal.
They were bound by duty, honor, and love of the brotherhood to save this man.
So they went out and sacrificed life and limb to complete their mission.
And here’s what I find interesting, we would cheer on a story like that.
We would champion these men for going into a dangerous situation and saving this man, but often times we will not join God’s mission and tell others about Jesus.
We won’t tell them about their need for salvation.
They are in just as much trouble, if not more, as Private Ryan, but we would rather watch them fumble and flail behind enemy lines than to go and rescue them.
Before Jesus departed from this earth he gave his disciples the great commission.
Matt 28:19-20 “19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you.
And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.””
And as God’s people, we are invited to join on his mission to seek and save the lost.
We are invited to join him and watch him change the lives of those around us.
And he didn’t just give us the mission and ask us to figure it out by ourselves.
Rather he demonstrated what that mission looks like.
Here’s where many people go wrong when it comes to ministry.
Rather than Joining God on his mission we try to create ministry experiences and we invite him to join us.
He’s already given us a mission we shouldn’t go about trying to create side missions that run counter to what he’s doing.
So we need to find out how God is working and join him in what he is doing.
We read about it last week.
When Jesus used an encounter with the Samaritan woman to show us how to minister to those far away from him.
And at the end of that interaction, his disciples arrive back to the well and are curious about why Jesus is talking to the Samaritan Woman.
But then she runs off and starts evangelizing to the town.
Satisfying Obedience
Jesus’ disciples are encouraging and urging Jesus to eat.
They know that he is exhausted and worn out from the journey.
So they want to make sure that Jesus has food.
I imagine them like that overbearing mom, “Jesus, strengthen your body.
Take and eat.
You have to regain your strength.
You have to refresh your body.
You need to satisfy your hunger.”
But Jesus isn’t interested in eating, he’s interested in teaching.
He wants the disciples to see what he is up to.
He wants their eyes to be open to the reality of what God is doing in the hearts of people.
He wants them to know the satisfaction not that comes from food, but comes from obedience to God.
Jesus tells them that he has food that they don’t know about.
And like everyone up to this point in John they are confused by what he says.
They are looking around for a food truck.
They are looking around for a traveling market.
They are looking around noticing that they are in the middle of the desert and they are thinking, who brought him food.
Where can we get some of this food.
Jesus are you holding out on us.
But Jesus reveals to them that he is not talking about physical food.
Just like he wasn’t talking about physical birth with Nicodemus.
Just like he wasn’t talking about physical water with the Woman at the well.
He is talking about a spiritual reality.
He is talking about the food that truly satisfies the soul.
“Obedience to God.”
Here’s how he puts it
John 4:34 “34 “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work,” Jesus told them.”
Jesus lives on, thrives on, and is satisfied by doing the will of God.
By finishing the work that God the Father has Called him to.
He finds his satisfaction by being on mission with God.
The thing that satisfies Jesus’ soul is obedience to God.
Seeing lost souls like that Samaritan woman come to the saving knowledge of God.
I don’t know if you have ever experienced someone coming to faith in Jesus, but it is an amazing experience.
And God invites us and commands us to join on that same mission.
With the same message.
We are to with our lives, our words, and our actions be pointing people to Jesus.
We are to bring them the good news of Jesus.
I know that there have been times when I have felt dissatisfied with my walk with Jesus.
Where I felt like he was far from me.
Where I felt lost and unsatisfied.
And can I tell you that when I look back at most of those times it was because I was seeking satisfaction in something other than obedience to God.
“Lack of satisfaction can come from lack of obedience.”
So if you are going through a spiritual dry spell.
Where you feel like God is far away from you.
Where you feel worn out and unsatisfied.
I want to ask you are you obeying God?
Here’s what Paul says in Acts 20:24 “24 But I consider my life of no value to myself; my purpose is to finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.”
How does Paul’s declaration make you feel?
Uncomfortable.
If you belong the Jesus…your life isn’t your own.
You were bought with a price.
The price was Jesus’ life.
And you no longer live, but Jesus lives within you.
And if Jesus lives within you, you will never be satisfied unless you do the will of the father.
As a church body our calling is to minister to one another AND to minister to the community.
We are to be the light of Jesus in a dark place.
And often we get comfortable just coming to church on Sunday Mornings and worshipping together and that’s as far as we go.
We don’t actually think about the community and people around our church who need the light of Jesus.
We don’t think about the fact that we are to be doing the Work of Jesus.
We come in punch our time clock and walk out those doors and wait for the next Sunday to roll around.
But as followers of Jesus we aren’t called to be entertained.
We aren’t called to be observe.
We called to be on mission.
We must never lose sight of our calling.
Eph 2:10 “10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.”
Rom 7:4 “...You belong to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.”
Jn 15:8 “8 My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be my disciples.”
We were created and called to bear fruit and to call others to turn to Jesus.
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