PROMISES MADE 5
MASTERPIECE
Obedience to the Law Vs. Obedience to the Promise
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We respond to what he has called us!
He calls us Disciples – we respond by seeking the promises
He calls us Salt and Light – we find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it!
He called us Overcomers – We live life with an overcoming attitude and fight back with supernatural weapons
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Personal story – overcompensated for feelings of inadequacy and incompetency.
Such potential… maybe one day you could be something.
Never shone at anything
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I have to differentiate between life before Jesus and Life after Jesus.
Even if those around me had said I was brilliant – it was not until I believed what Jesus called me that I started to shine!
Its because of what He promised I was to him…
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What He calls me gives me purpose!
Purpose—if you don’t know the purpose of a thing—abuse thing.
Want to know the purpose—don’t ask the thing—creator of the thing.
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WITHOUT CHRIST, THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU.
Sinful, spiritually dead, object of God’s wrath
Ephesians 2:1, 3b-5 NLT
Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins… 3b By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else. 4 But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, 5 that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)
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WITH CHRIST, YOU ARE GOD’S MASTERPIECE.
Ephesians 2:8-10
8 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. 10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
We are not saved by good works but for good works.
God’s masterpiece…
God don’t make no junk.
I am—God’s masterpiece—made in Christ Jesus
To do what God created me to do!
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AS GOD’S MASTERPIECE
YOU ARE CREATED FOR THE MASTER’S PURPOSE.
PSALMS 139:13-16
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Ps 139:13-16
Masterpiece for the master’s purpose!
This moment in history—I am here to glorify God
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YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO DO EVERYTHING GOD WANTS YOU TO DO.
2 PETER 1:3
(God’s) divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Moses… not a good speaker.
I can not (can), I’m not (am), Don’t have (do have)
Prettier, More hair, better singer, taller
Can’t sing, Not artistic, Cant work with my hands.
Wasn’t created to sing, paint, or fix toilet!
THOSE ARE THINGS TO DO – WE HAVE BEEN CALLED TO A PURPOSE
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GOD USES EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE TO BRING ABOUT HIS PURPOSES.
ROMANS 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
What you meant for evil… God used for good.
Before Jesus I was a mess
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IF YOU DON’T LIKE YOUR YOURSELF
LET GOD REMAKE YOU.
JEREMIAH 18:3-4 NCV
So I went down to the potter’s house and saw him working at the potter’s wheel. 4 He was using his hands to make a pot from clay, but something went wrong with it. So the potter used that clay to make another pot the way he wanted it to be.
MASTERPIECE
poiema (poy’-ay-mah); a beautiful poem, perfect workmanship, a tapestry.
Ever looked at the backside of the tapestry?
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
EPHESIANS 1:11
In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.
God’s not finished with me yet…
…being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Phil 1:6
Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. Isa 64:8-9
WHAT OTHERS CALL US GIVE US A STATUS
WHAT GOD CALLS US GIVES US PURPOSE
Greatest tragedy is life without purpose.
Life without purpose is time without meaning.
When you want to know the purpose of a thing, don’t ask the thing—ask the one who created the thing.