Sister Alice Sunday School 3/17/13

Sister Alice Sunday School 3/17/13

2Ti 3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

2Ti 3:17  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

When I was studying this, the thought:

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Joh 1:11  He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

Joh 1:12  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Joh 1:14  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Jesus is the Word of God.  We are joint heirs with Christ.

Rom 8:14  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Rom 8:15  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Rom 8:16  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Rom 8:17  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Mat 12:50  For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

In this lesson and in my life I want you saints to be open to teach me the doctrine, for instruction, for correction. 

This lesson is based on the thought that each one of us has a divine mission or ministry that is bigger than our life.  This takes out a lot of fear and a lot of confusion. 

I’ve thought of this as I’ve studies through life: Happiness is a secondary thing.  It is something that will be added to us if we are in God’s mission.  Happiness is a byproduct not the aim.  If we are doing what God has for us then we will be happy. 

Jesus, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame.  We touch on Jesus as the supreme example for us to follow, then we put him way above anything we can hope for in our minds, because his mission was to save mankind.  He was true and faithful to His mission.

The prophets foretold Jesus, the angels announced Him.  The star made it real to the wise men.  The beautiful birth of Christ!  God told Joseph to merry Mary and that she was to have a son that was to be named Jesus.  The angel told Mary that he would be the savior of the world.  The same thing was told to the shepherds. 

God witnessed to Simeon and to Anna that he was to be the savior of the world.  And they went about proclaiming it to all that they could.

The next place that we find writing of Jesus is Luke 2:49

Luk 2:49  And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?

Don’t you know that I must be about my father’s business?  He was twelve here.  He knew his mission early. 

How do we find our mission?  Once we know it then I believe that we will be faithful to it.

Mat 4:17  From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Right before this He was baptized and went through that horrible temptation.  Jesus knew what his mission was.  The enemy told Him, “I’ll give you all the nations.”  That could have sounded like a shortcut.  He recognized the enemy as Satan and did not take the short cut.  We will not have any shortcuts in our mission.

Mat 5:17  Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Mat 5:18  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Jesus was ever conscious of fulfilling the law.  He was the end of an era for the law.  It was uppermost in his mind, to fulfill his father’s duties and fulfill the law.

Mat 20:25  But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.

Mat 20:26  But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

Mat 20:27  And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

Mat 20:28  Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Each of us needs to follow God’s ministry for our life the way that we can do this is to be a servant.

Luk 4:18  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Luk 4:19  To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

Luk 4:20  And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

Luk 4:21  And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Not only was the old law fulfilled and finished, but he is talking of the heart here.  He came to “heal the broken hearted”.  It is beautiful that He fulfilled the heart of what God had prophesied to Isaiah. 

Mat 26:52  Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Mat 26:53  Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?

Mat 26:54  But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

Even in suffering, here right before He was taken, uppermost in his mind was that the scriptures be fulfilled and that He would finish the course right and fulfill what God wanted Him to do.

Luk 19:9  And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.

Luk 19:10  For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

Jesus came to seek and to save.  Everyone looking on with Zacheous thought, “Now what he going to do?”  Jesus was not perturbed by their thoughts.  He came to seek and to save.  Where would we be if he had not?

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

That we might be saved!  Where would we be if Christ had not fulfilled his mission?  Where would my family, my children, my grandchildren and their hope be if Myron and Darla had given up?  Where would the people that we have influence over be if we don’t keep our eyes on our mission. 

He didn’t come to condemn us, we were already condemned.  He came to bring the solution to our condemnation.  As Gentiles we were outside the court and never going to be able to receive forgiveness.  The Jews were unable to be redeemed from their sins by the blood of sheep and bulls.  They had to come continually to offer sacrifices.

We were won by love to the love of God.

Joh 4:34  Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

Jesus was hungry and thirsty.  He did not let these physical needs deter him.  His main goal in life was to finish His work. 

Joh 1:17  For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Joh 1:18  No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

The only begotten son that is in the bosom of the father.  This is how John felt about himself.  Each of us can feel this that we are in the heart of God. 

Joh 9:4  I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Joh 9:5  As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Jesus kept His mission as the most important thing to him in this life.  I must work.  I must finish my mission.  We want to learn this attitude, not “I will” but “I must.”

Joh 5:33  Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.

Joh 5:34  But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.

Joh 5:35  He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

Joh 5:36  But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

He was letting the work that He did of His father bear witness of Him.

Joh 10:10  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

It is wonderful that we can have life and have it more abundantly, but that is not the mission, that is the byproduct. 

Joh 10:36  Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

Joh 10:37  If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

Joh 10:38  But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

He is going to let the works of the father witness and testify of Him.  We are saved by grace but these works follow.

2Ti 1:9  Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,