Sharing the Gospel
Part 6 – Discover Your Calling
Rev Bruce A. Shields
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SERMON TIMELINE
1. Introduction
2. Everyday Life
3. What do we Share?
4. What we can DO for the Body of Christ
5. What is my Purpose?
6. Discover Your Calling
INTRODUCTION
Today is Sunday. July 9th, 2023
We began this series a few weeks ago after our 10-part series on the local church's mission and our responsibility to serve. During this series, we defined what it means to be a disciple. We revealed the difference between a Luke 5 Disciple and a Matthew 28 Disciple.
Last week we discussed how everyone’s purpose is the same; fulfill the Will of God, which is taking the Gospel of Christ into the entire world.
This week we will discuss how we can discover our unique and personal calling by living out God's call on everyone.
Today we will Learn more about our Calling
The Lord calls you in four primary areas of your life.
Your relationship with God, your relationship with your family, your relationship with your local church, and your relationship with your community…in that order.
Why that order?
Nothing else matters if your relationship with God is not in good standing.
If you are not caring for your family, you are no good to the church.
If you are not active in your local church, your work in the community is less fruitful.
If you are not reaching out to the lost in the community, you are not fulfilling your purpose, which is to fulfill the Will of God.
1 Timothy 2:3-4 “This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.”
2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”
SCRIPTURE READING (Legacy Standard Bible)
1 Peter 2:9
“But you are A CHOSEN FAMILY, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;”
TODAY’S MESSAGE
I. YOU ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE
a. The Lord called you from darkness to light
i. Answer the call with confession and repentance
ii. Call on the name of the Lord, and be forgiven.
iii. Receive the Spirit of God
iv. Allow Him to change you from what this world has made you to what the Lord Himself created you to be.
v. You will become a new creation in Christ Jesus.
vi. Hebrews 12:1-2 “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
b. Our relationship with God is first and foremost of importance
i. 2 Corinthians 5:17 “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”
ii. Ephesians 4:17-24 “Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their mind, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart. And they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. But you did not learn Christ in this way— if indeed you heard Him and were taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus— to lay aside, in reference to your former conduct, the old man, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and to put on the new man, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.”
iii. Colossians 3:1-10 “Therefore, if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you died and your life has been hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory. Therefore, consider the members of your earthly body as dead to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. On account of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. But now you also, lay them all aside: wrath, anger, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you put off the old man with its evil practices, and have put on the new man who is being renewed to a full knowledge according to the image of the One who created him—”
iv. Romans 7:6 “But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were constrained, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.”
c. Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness
i. Matthew 6:33-34 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
ii. When we place our attention on the Lord and His Holy Word, through reading and prayer, we literally have no worries, for all things will work for His Glory.
II. YOU ARE CALLED TO YOUR FAMILY
a. Be a godly spouse
i. Following I Corinthians 13 at home
ii. Wives, submit to your husbands as they submit to the Lord (Colossians 3:18)
iii. Husbands, do not make your wives angry, irritated with you, and do not grieve them (Colossians 3:19)
1. Remember men, 1 Peter 3:7 “You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with a weaker vessel (heart breaks easier than a man, emotional pain), since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.”
2. God does not hear your prayers if you mistreat your wife!
iv. Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,”
v. Ephesians 5:33 “Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects [Just as a woman’s emotions are fragile, so is a man’s ego] her husband.”
b. Be a godly parent.
i. Colossians 3:21 “Fathers, do not exasperate [provoke] your children, so that they will not lose heart.”
ii. Ephesians 6:4 “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
iii. Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child according to his way, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
c. Be a godly grandparent.
i. Paul wrote to Timothy, expressing the positive impact Timothy’s mother and grandmother had on Timothy’s faith.
ii. 2 Timothy 1:4b-5 “…so that I may be filled with joy, being reminded of the unhypocritical faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that it is in you as well.”
iii. Proverbs 16:31 “Gray hair is a crown of beauty; It is found in the way of righteousness.”
iv. Titus 2:1-4a “But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine. Older men are to be temperate [calm, reserved], dignified [noble, respectable, honorable], sensible [rational, practical], sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. Older women likewise are to be reverent [respectful] in their behavior, not malicious [mean, spiteful] gossips nor enslaved to much wine [drunkard], teaching what is good, so that they may instruct the young women in sensibility: to love their husbands, to love their children…”
III. YOU ARE CALLED TO SERVE THE CHURCH
a. Offer yourself as a living sacrifice.
i. I Corinthians 1:10 “Now I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.”
b. Serve the body of Christ as He enables you.
i. Ephesians 4:1-6 “Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.”
ii. I Thessalonians 5:14 “And we urge you, brothers, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.”
c. Help the body with the gifts He has given you.
i. Colossians 3:13 “bearing with one another, and graciously forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone, just as the Lord graciously forgave you, so also should you.”
IV. YOU ARE CALLED TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY
a. The Great Commission
i. Mark 16:15 “And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.”
b. The poor and needy in and out of the church
i. Those within the church as well as outside
ii. Proverbs 3:27-28 “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in your hand to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come back, And tomorrow I will give it,” When it is there with you.”
1. We do not have to support cheaters, liars, thieves, scammers, etc., just because they ask us to.
2. We freely help those to whom it is due.
c. The widows and orphans
i. Isaiah 1:17 “Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Execute justice for the orphan, Plead for the widow.”
Through doing these things, you will discover your unique Calling.
CONCLUSION
We all have a unique calling and function within the Body of Christ.
By fulfilling the calling placed upon all believers, we will discover our unique calling. This calling may never change or change with the seasons in our lives.
As long as you live to build and strengthen your relationship with God, you will be aware of your unique calling, even if it changes.
Next week: Testing the Unique Calling of my Life
NEXT WEEK
Part 7 – Testing the Unique Calling of my Life
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