Marching orders
On Saturday I was
watching this cartoon called Young Justice on the DC Comics streaming network
and on this one episode Miss, Martian, Robin the Boy Wonder, Kid Flash,
Superboy, Aqualad and Artemis all wake up in different places and have no
memory of the mission. As Christians we’re
on a mission ourselves and sometimes we lose sight of it. We need a reminder. God has called us to reach the lost who don’t
follow God. Our mission parameters also
hold us responsible.
Proverbs
24:11-12
“Rescue those being
led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, ‘But we knew nothing about this.’ Does not he who weighs the heart perceive
it? Does not he who guards your life
know it? Will he not repay each person
according to what he has done?”
Churches are supposed
to be on a rescue mission we’re like John Rambo trying to rescue the POW’s in
First Blood part 2. Some of you have
bought into the thought that we’re expendable when a lost and dying world need
us more than ever! The band Petra
compared the Christian church to a sleeping Giant and they were right it needs
a wakeup call. Are we pointing others to
God or are we just playing church? Get
back in the rescue mission! Our mission
orders though we may have forgotten them remain the same.
2 Peter 3:8-9
“But do not forget
this one thing dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years and
a thousand years are like a day. The
Lord is not slow in keeping his promise as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to
perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”
1 Corinthians
1:18-25
“For the message of
the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing but to us who are being
saved it is the power of God For it is written ‘I will destroy the wisdom of
the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.’ Where is the
wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the
world? For since in the wisdom of God the
world through its wisdom did not know Him.
God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save
those who believe. Jews demand
miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom but we preach Christ crucified: a
stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has
called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of
God. For the foolishness of God is wiser
than man’s wisdom and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”
Romans 1:16
“I am not ashamed of
the gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who
believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.”
I want to conclude
with this from a song called Face the Nation by 4 Him
“We tell the Lord we'll go
Where He would have us serve
But sometimes honest vows
Become just token words
Never fulfilling the call
That's been given
When just outside our door
There waits a world in need
So many breaking hearts
That only He can see
We have the power that's found
In His Word
But we have to reach out
If we're gonna be heard
And Jesus said to them, "Go, therefore
And make disciples of all nations.
Baptizing them in the name of the Father
And the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching
Them to observe all that I commanded
You. And lo, I am with you always, even
To the end of the age." (Matt. 28: 19-20)”
Until the Whole World hears by Casting Crowns
Independence Day by Whiteheart
You can see the World by Whiteheart
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