VISION SUNDAY
(Proverbs 29:18 KJV) Where there is no vision, the people perish.
(Proverbs 29:18 MSG) If people can't see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; but when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.
KNOW GOD
FIND FREEDOM
DISCOVER PURPOSE
MAKE A DIFFERENCE
1 Corinthians 9:24
24 Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!
WE ARE GOING TO STOP TRYING & START TRAINING!!!
1 Corinthians 9:24-25-27
24 Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! 25 All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize.
26 So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. 27 I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.
1 TIMOTHY 4:7-8
7 Do not waste time arguing over godless ideas and old wives’ tales. Instead, train yourself to be godly.8 “Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come.”
DALLAS WILLARD – “WE ARE NOT TRYING TO BE DIFFERENT PEOPLE, BUT WE ARE TRAINING TO BE DIFFERENT PEOPLE.”
TRYING IS AN ATTEMPT TO CHANGE WITH MINIMAL COMMITMENT.
TRAINING IS WHOLEHEARTED COMMITMENT TO ACHIEVE A SPECIFIC RESULT
THE DEVIL DOESN’T COME UP WITH A DIFFERENT PLAN…BUT HE COMES UP WITH ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE GOD’S PLAN BUT ITS COUNTERFEIT.
KNOW ME
FIND FAME
DISCOVER A PLATFORM
MAKE A DOLLAR
KNOW GOD
EPHESIANS 1:16-18
16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
MATTHEW 7:21-23
MSG
21-23 “Knowing the correct password—saying ‘Master, Master,’ for instance—isn’t going to get you anywhere with me. What is required is serious obedience—doingwhat my Father wills. I can see it now—at the Final Judgment thousands strutting up to me and saying, ‘Master, we preached the Message, we bashed the demons, our super-spiritual projects had everyone talking.’ And do you know what I am going to say? ‘You missed the boat. All you did was use me to make yourselves important. You don’t impress me one bit. You’re out of here.’
PSALM 92:13
planted in the house of the Lord,
they will flourish in the courts of our God.
THE ENVIRONMENT YOU ARE IN DETERMINES HOW MUCH YOU FLOURISH
FIND FREEDOM
GALATIANS 5:1 NIV It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
WORLDLY FREEDOM TELLS YOU TO DO WHAT YOU WANT
BURDENED – GREEK WORD - ENECHO – ENTANGLED OR TO BE ENSNARED
WHAT PUTS US ENTANGLED
-- OLD MINDSETS
- PERFORMANCE MINDSET
- MY PERSPECTIVE OF GOD
o MARTIN LUTHER – “ My temptations is this: that I think I don’t have a gracious God. This is because I am still caught up in the law. It is the greatest grief, and It produces death.”
ROMANS 8:6 CSB
6 Now the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace.
- WORLDLY EXPECTATIONS
GALATIANS 5:7
7 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?
- MY SIN
HEBREWS 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
HOW DO WE GET OUT OF BEING ENTANGLED AND FIND FREEDOM?
GALATIANS 5:13
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
CALLED – GREEK WORD – KALEO – INVITED OR TO BE CALLED BY NAME
DISCOVER PURPOSE
GOD CREATED ME ON PURPOSE FOR A PURPOSE
PROVERBS 19:21 Many plans are in a man’s mind, but it is the Lord’s purpose for him that will stand.
PASTOR BRACKEN/DAD - life without purpose is time without meaning
PASTOR BRACKEN - Ignorance of our purpose is dangerous because it permits the possibility that we live our lives and never know why we live.
PURPOSE - THE REASON FOR WHICH SOMETHING IS DONE OR CREATED OR FOR WHICH SOMETHING EXISTS
Mark twain - two most important things in a man’s life is the day you’re born, and the day you figure out why
- ROMANS 12:2 Don’t conform to the PATTERN of this world but be transformed by the RENEWING of your mind
THE WORLDS PATTERN WILL ALWAYS FIGHT THE PURPOSE OF GOD
Potential - Is everything you could do
Purpose – Is everything God’s graced you to do
PHILIPPIANS 3:10 AMPC 10 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection
MAKE A DIFFERENCE
(Ephesians 2:10) For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do
(John 17:18 MSG) In the same way that you gave me a mission in the
world, I give them a mission in the world.
(Acts 20:24 NCV) I don’t care about my own life. The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me—to tell people the Good News about God’s grace.
(Mark 5:19 NCV) Go home to your family and friends. Tell them
how much the Lord has done for you and how he has had mercy on
you.
(Proverbs 3:27-28 MSG) Never walk away from someone who
deserves help; your hand is God’s hand for that person. Never tell
your neighbors to wait until tomorrow if you can help them now.
(1 Corinthians 9:22 TLB) Whatever a person is like, I try to find
common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about
Christ and let Christ save him.
(Mark 16:15 NCV) Jesus said to His followers, “Go everywhere in the world, and tell the Good News to everyone.
LUKE 9:24
If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.
MOMENTS MEAN NOTHING IF WE DON’T HAVE SOME MOVEMENT