Vision (4)

By Pastor Young Joon Park

January 22, 2012

 

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The purpose of the Church: - see Colossians 1:26-27

Ephesians 3:10

so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.

 

You are one who has the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to reveal them to the nations and to open the Eternal Door for them with the keys that Yeshua HaMashiach gave to you.

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Mental hospital – a patient – everyday he was making a rope with any kinds of materials – his parents brought to the mental institution – admitted to hospital – his roommate who asks questions everyday– ¡°what are you doing?¡± ¡°I am making a rope.¡± ¡°Why are you making a rope?¡± ¡°I am going to sell it.¡± ¡°Why do you want to sell it?¡± ¡°¡¦ to make money.¡± ¡°Why do you want to make money?¡±

¡°¡¦ to buy the materials.¡± ¡°Why do you want to buy the materials?¡± ¡°I am going to make a rope.¡± – the same questions and the same answers every day. – one day they started again for questions and answers – ¡°Why do you make a rope?¡± – at the moment to answer, this patient questioned himself ¡°What am I doing and why I am doing?¡±, and started to think about it first time since he was admitted in the hospital.

 

It is a true story; and I do realize that there are so many who are like this patient.

I used to be one of them until I was 16. I started questioning myself, ¡°Why do I live and what is the purpose of my life on earth?¡±

I believe that this question is the fundamental human being¡¯s question to find our own identity and the purpose.

I could not find the answer even if I believed in Yeshua HaMashiach going to church. I accepted Yeshua HaMashiach as my Lord and Savior in my life personally through my brother. In 1971 God gave me the answer for what my life purpose is. Since then I have been pursuing the Lord.

 

Do you have a pen?

What is the purpose of this pen? Are you worth more than what this pen is worth? Are you sure?

Even this pen has a purpose, then how much more should you have the real purpose in your life from the Lord.

You are not here by accident through your father and mother, but He had conceived of you in His Heart before He put the foundation of the universe and created you very carefully for the special purpose and the destiny for His Kingdom. He sent you here on earth to fulfill your destiny for the Kingdom of God. (see Ephesians 1:4)

How many of you were born by your own will?

It means that God sent you here for the special purpose.

 

Let¡¯s see how important you are to His Eyes.

Remember that God told all of us that you are the Apple of His Eyes last week.

He said, ¡°I will not tolerate any enemy who touches Apple of My Eyes.¡±

That much God identifies you as the Apple of His Eyes.

 

I. God¡¯s Creation

 

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

 

1.  God created the heavens and the earth for you

 

God created the universe in 6 days, but it is still the mystery of God whether or not He really did create the universe in 6 days as in 24 hours a day. There is nothing impossible to God that He can create things in a day. But I don¡¯t have any answer about it yet, but I know that each day has the spiritual meaning.

 

Remember that the Bible is about Yeshua HaMashiach.

 

Genesis 1:1-5 God¡®s Creation of the First Day – in the beginning, God said, darkness, light

John 1:1-5 the 1st day of pattern of Creation of God – in the beginning, Word=God, darkness, Light

John described God¡¯s Love begins with the pattern of the creation of God on the first Day.

What does God say to us?

He is introducing Yeshua HaMashiach whom God has sent to us for the Redemption of God, because He loves us. God disclosed His Plan for all of us on how much He loves us continually.

 

John 3:16-21

16 ¡°For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18 ¡°He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 ¡°This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 ¡°But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.¡±

 

We can see how much He loved us from the Beginning of His Creation.

 

*We can find the power of the word of your mouth from this creation.

Genesis 1:2-3

2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, ¡°Let there be light¡±; and there was light.

 

You need to declare and decree to the spiritual realm for yourself, your family and One Glory Church everyday continually. You will see the Hand of God upon you.

 

God created everything before He created Adam and Eve.

 

2.  God created you

 

Genesis 1:27

 

When everything was prepared for Adam and Eve, then He created both male and female. That means everything is created for only Adam and Eve, and their descendants.

In other words God created the world for you, so God sent you on earth for the special reasons and purposes. When you damage the creation of God, actually you hurt yourself too.

 

3.  The purpose of your life

 

Here is the reason God created man and woman as His Own Image in the Image of God.

 

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.¡±

 

1)   Be Fruitful

 

What is the meaning of fruitful? It is talking about the babies in natural children and the spiritual children, but not about the fruit to eat.

God wants us to reproduce sons and daughters in our own likeness, according to our image.

We cannot have babies if we do not get married and live together.

It is the same in the spiritual realm. We have to have the intimate relationship with the Lord if you want to bear fruits.

 

John 15:4-5

4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5 I am the Vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

 

Then we will start to bear fruits in our life, also we need to know that there are two different kinds of fruit in our life. ¡°The Fruit of the evangelism¡± that is spiritual converts and children from the sharing the Gospel. The other one is called ¡°the Fruit of the Holy Spirit¡± which is through the maturity of our Christian life. We need to have the balance of the two.

Yeshua HaMashiach chose 12 disciples as His Spiritual Children, and these 12 disciples were His Goal for His Ministry, because these 12 Disciples are the Back Bone of His Ministry and His Church.

So He focused and invested His Life to them with very intense relationship 24/7 for 3 ¨ö years.

Before He was arrested by the soldiers, He prayed for them very seriously.

 

John 17:6

I have manifested Your Name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your Word.

 

2)   Multiply

 

The key of the multiplication is to raise 12 True Disciples of the Lord. My real goal of my life is to raise 12 true disciples of the Lord. Yeshua HaMashiach saw lot of souls through His 12 Disciples, so He prayed for the souls who are us from His Disciples¡¯ witnessing seriously 2000 years ago.

 

John 17:20

I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those (you) also who believe in Me through their (His Disciples¡¯) word

 

Also He gave the Great Commission with His Authority to His Disciples and sent them to the nations.

Matthew 28:19-20

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.¡±

 

3)   Fill the earth

 

God wants to fill the earth with His Godly People.

 

Habakkuk 2:14

For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the Glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.

 

John 17:22

The Glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;

 

4)   Subdue it and Rule over

 

כָּבַשׁ: Subdue: to tread down; hence, negatively, to disregard; positively, to conquer, subjugate,

רָדָה: Rule over: make to have dominion, prevail against, reign, bear, to tread down,

Subdue and rule over is about the authority and power over the spiritual realm and the natural realm. More likely subdue is about the spiritual realm, and rule over is about the natural realm, although it could be the other way around.

 

Matthew 28:18

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

 

You have to walk by faith in the Authority of Yeshua HaMashiach and the Power of the Holy Spirit against the evil spiritual realm throughout your life.

 

Ephesians 6:12

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

 

Why did Yeshua HaMashiach give us the Great Commission?

Is it just the fancy slogan for Christian life?

He meant to send us to the nations to fulfill this Great Commission, because God Loves the world and wants to save every single soul on earth.

 

This is our purpose of life on earth here and this is our vision and mission to commit.

Are you willing to give your life to fulfill this Great Commission?

 

Last week we meditated about the desire of heart through Leah¡¯s marriage life, also we saw that how God is going to do about her desire for her life.

We will see that in detail in the next message.

 

II. The Reward

 

God has plans to reward you.

We can see that there are at least 5 crowns of rewards that God prepared for His Children in the Bible

1.  The Crowns 

 

1)   The Crown of Rejoicing:

 

1 Thess. 2:19-20

19 For who is our Hope or Joy or Crown of Exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? 20 For you are our glory and joy.

 

To those who are faithfully witnesses to the saving grace of God and leads souls to Jesus. This crown has also been named the soul winner's crown.

 

2)   The Crown of Glory

 

1 Peter 5:1-4

4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading Crown of Glory.

 

And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading Crown of Glory.

This is the pastor¡¯s crown and will be given to the ministers who faithfully feed the flock of God. This probably could also include preachers, teachers, Sunday school teachers, missionaries and all those who teach the Word of God in their respective ministries. This crown may signify the importance and sacrifices of bringing up others into the ways of God. God wants those who are saved to grow and learn as much as they can about Him, His Son and His Spirit. He uses mature believers who are willing to teach others.

God can use you to teach and shepherd others. God shows you the extreme importance that He is placing on those who teach and preach the word. Being willing to teach and educate others after they are saved is one of the greatest things you can do for them this side of heaven.

 

3)   The Incorruptible Crown

 

4)   The Crown of Life

 

5)   The Crown of Righteousness

 

The 1st and 2nd Crowns are for the people how spread Gospel and lead the souls to the Lord and to make them to be the disciples of the Lord.

 

2.  You will be like the stars

 

Dan 12:3

Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

 

III. Our Responsibility

 

1.  Your calling

 

Ezekiel 3:17

17 Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me.

 

2.  Evangelism

 

Ezekiel 3:18-19

18 When I say to the wicked, ¡®You will surely die,¡¯ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.

 

3.  Shepherding: Discipleship

 

Ezekiel 3:20-21

20 Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. 21 However, if you have warned the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself.

 

Conclusion

 

Altar Call:

 

1. Our Lord promised you with this Word.

 

Romans 10:13

for ¡°Whoever will call on the Name of the Lord will be saved.¡±

 

God loves you so much no matter who you are, and no matter what wrong you have done in your past. God will give you His Grace and bring the Life in your life and abundantly if you come to the Lord right now. It is the time to come to the Lord and to give your life to the Lord. Please come. Our Lord Yeshua HaMashiach is inviting you to come into His Arms and to be a family of God.

 

Matthew 11:28

Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

 

2. Now you heard clearly about purpose of your life and it is the time to respond to the Lord that you commit to His Calling.

 

Isaiah  6:1-8

1 In the year of King Uzziah¡¯s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. 2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called out to another and said, ¡°Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.¡±

4 And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke. 5 Then I said, ¡°Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.¡±

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7 He touched my mouth with it and said, ¡°Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven.¡±

 

8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, ¡°Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?¡± Then I said, ¡°Here am I. Send me!¡±