The Destiny of Each Life

By Pastor Young Joon Park

April 26, 2009

 

Open illustration

Church member – pastor, wife, barber

Barbershop owner

Pastor urged barber to reach out to people

He learned how to reach out to people from Pastor

Are you ready to die?

His customer ran away from the barbershop.

 

Matthew 13:31-32

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He presented another parable to them, saying, ¡°The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;

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and this is smaller than all other seeds, but when it is full grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR come and NEST IN ITS BRANCHES.¡±

 

Mustard Seed

 

1. The Kingdom of Heaven

Matthew 13:31

¡¦ The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field;

 

1) Each seed has a destiny and a vision

 

John 15:16

You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

 

    a) God positioned us in each place

Positioned means ordained or appointed

    b) Go and bear fruit

    c) Fruit remains for the multiplication

 

2) The smallest seed

Matthew 13:32

and this is smaller than all other seeds, ¡¦

 

3) The seed has to die for their destiny

John 12:24

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

 

 

4) The plant has to grow to the maturity

Matthew 13:32

¡¦ but when it is full grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, ¡¦

 

    a) You have to see the vision to grow

    b) It is your DNA

 

5) To multiply the seed

John 15:16

You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

 

6) Impact the territory

Matthew 13:32

¡¦ so that THE BIRDS OF THE AIR come and NEST IN ITS BRANCHES.

 

 

 

2. The Life of Faith

Matthew 17:20

And He said to them, ¡°Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ¡®Move from here to there,¡¯ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

 

1) Intimate relationship in prayer life

Matthew 17:21

But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.

 

Matthew 6:6

But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

 

 

The Lord¡¯s Prayer

Matthew 6:9-13

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¡°Pray, then, in this way: ¡®Our Father who is in Heaven, Hallowed be Your Name.

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¡®Your Kingdom come. Your Will be done, On earth as it is in Heaven.

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¡®Give us this day our daily bread.

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¡®And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

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¡®And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For Yours is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever. Amen.¡¯

 

1.      The relationship with God as Our Father and His Name

2.      His Kingdom on earth through His Will – Mission

3.      Request our need – He is our source

4.      Love relationship with men

5.      Protection from sin and evil

6.      He reigns forever.

 

 

  2) The size of faith

      Believe & No Doubt

 

Matthew 21:21

And Jesus answered and said to them, ¡°Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ¡®Be taken up and cast into the sea,¡¯ it will happen.

 

 

  3) Nothing will be impossible

      It will obey to you

 

Matthew 21:22

And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.

 

Mark 9:23

And Jesus said to him, ¡°¡®If You can?¡¯ All things are possible to him who believes.¡±

 

  4) To fulfill our destiny

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

 

 

3. The Calling and the Destiny

 

Genesis 3:15

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise Him on the heel.¡±

 

Genesis 1:28 

God blessed them; and God said to them, ¡°Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.¡±

 

Matthew 28:18-20

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And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, ¡° All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

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¡° Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

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teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.¡±

 

You are His Seed!

You are Jesus¡¯ Generation (Joshua generation).

You are carrying His DNA.

 

 

Conclusion

Practical in our daily life

1.      We need to conquer the world to start where we are in right now.

1)     Know who you are in Him

2)     Know what your destiny is

3)     Know the reason where you are in

4)     Know how to start your destiny

2.      All these promises are not going to be yours until you give your life to the Lord.