Reaching The Gentiles Was Always The Plan: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:01 Thank you for joining us this morning for a time of worship a time of the word and a time of prayer and we’re going to start off this morning with the reading of God’s word if you’ll join with me please. Psalms 86 verse 9 all nations whom you have made shall come and worship before you o Lord and shall glorify your name. Psalms. 22:27 all the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord and all the families of the nation shall worship before you. Revelations the last book of the Bible chapter 15 verse 4 for all nations shall come and worship before you.

▶ 0:59 Second Chronicles 5:13. When the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in the praising and thanksgiving the Lord then the house of the Lord was filled with the cloud of his glory. Now we’re going to enter into a time of worship God told that it told us that everybody’s gonna worship God and certainly we want to worship God. We’re going to unite in worship and praise of our Lord Jesus Christ. With the baptist church singing clap your hands in the sanctuary.

▶ 1:48 With the marines at Camp Pendleton many denominations and boys that are going to put their life on the line and some of them may lose their life are going to be singing that tremendous prophetic song the days of Elijah and then we’re going to go to a spirit-filled church where they’re gonna be singing I surrender all and that’s the key we need to surrender all to Jesus to be used of him and wait for the coming of the war cuz it will be worth it all when Jesus comes and we see him no matter what we’re going through so less praise and worship and join in unity with these three different church groups this morning.

▶ 2:43 As we look into the Bible this morning. We’re going to be dealing with the subject that the heathen the Gentile nations was God’s first choice his first plan and God chose the Jews the people of Israel to reach those nations in Genesis chapter 10 verses 1 through 5 the Bible tells us that from Noah’s family all the Gentiles were separated on to their lands by their language. By their families and by their nations as. We read on in Genesis 26 for.

▶ 3:35 Abraham I will give your seed all of these countries and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. Now we know that that seed is talking about Jesus because that’s what the Bible tells us but we also got to understand that Abraham’s seed was Israel. And they were to reach the nations with the gospel the good news of Jesus Christ. Who was the seed that would bless the earth by turning them from their wicked ways then we read in 1st Chronicles 16 23 and 24.

▶ 4:29 David prophesied this prophecy. Proclaim the good news of his salvation from day to day he prophesied to Israel to the Jews declare his glory among the heathen declare his marvelous works among all the nations. See God prophetically he came to David by the spirit and David spoke what God had intended from the beginning that the Jews were to reach the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ. In Malachi the last book of the Bible. Here the God speaks to the prophet says you sons of Jacob now who are the sons of Jacob Israel the Jews you.

▶ 5:30 Sons of Jacob you are sorcerers you’re into witchcraft you are adulterers you’re into sexual immorality you are liars you say you’re gonna serve God and you say you’re serving the living God and you’re not because you’re serving idols and you’re serving other sins. You. Exploit laborers you don’t give them a fair wage you exploit the widows and the orphans who have no one to supply their needs and you. Exploit them and use them and take advantage of them but most of all you sons of Jacob. You turn away the foreigners the very people I want you to reach you turn your back on them you turn away from them and it’s all because sons of Jacob you do not fear me the Lord God now that is God’s prophetic word to Israel the last book of the Bible and then there is what they call 400 years of silence but the word wasn’t silence during those 400 years the word was still worked if people would preach it and teach it.

▶ 7:00 Then we go to Malachi. The same chapter verses 6 through 12. What says you sons of Jacob you need to repent and turn to me and if you would repent and turn to me all nations will call you blessed why because you would be fulfilling my word doing what I asked you to do bringing the good news to them and then they would and living for me and then they would say you are a blessed people a blessed nation. Then we go to the New Testament Jesus is talking here in Matthew 21 verse 23 and Jesus is directly talking in the temple to the Jews chief priests and the elders of the temple of God and this was his message to the Jews the chief priests and the elders the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth its fruits.

▶ 8:20 Jesus said you guys did not reach the world you guys did not take my good news to the nation’s so the kingdom of God is taken from you and I’m gonna give it to a people that will bring forth its fruit. Now that brings us to us. The heathen the Gentile nations are still God’s first choice. But now God chooses the fruitful followers to reach the nations he said I’m gonna give it to a people bringing forth the fruit so now God since Jesus died on the cross it’s given the responsibility of reaching the nations to fruitful followers of Christ not just believers but followers of Christ he gives that great commission in John chapter 16 verse 16 Jesus.

▶ 9:36 Says by the way you have not chosen me forth. But I have chosen you and I have ordained you. That you go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain. God came to us we think we are saved by faith we think we are saved by grace we think we did a lot in this thing a farm serving Jesus and believing in Jesus but it was he who came to us it was he who came and sent someone to preach the word to us it was he who took that word and put faith in us to respond to him and accept him and he came in in our life and he chose us and he is telling us to go go and bring forth fruit and let that fruit remain now he’s just not talking about the fruit of the spirit here we should bring forth the spirit of love joy peace long-suffering gentleness kindness meekness faith and temperance we should be doing that but also he wants us to bring forth the fruit of the harvest people coming

▶ 11:07 into Jesus Christ into his kingdom and inheriting and possessing Jesus the king of the kingdom and his kingdom in. Mark chapter 16 verse 15 go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature that is your responsibility o. Fruitful ones of the kingdom. Let me decide who is going to believe. You may have to preach to them 10 times before I can stir their heart and put faith in them to respond to me but it’s just your job where do they put it Eve or not whether they get baptized or not whether they bring.

▶ 12:06 Forth the fruit of salvation or not it is your job to go to the people of every kindred tribe tongue and nation and preach the gospel to them in Matthew 28:19. Again Jesus says go therefore and make disciples of all nations. Baptizing them in the name of the father in the name of the son Jesus and in the name of our Holy Spirit. You go and make disciples and if they believe. If they receive me you teach them to observe to obey all things that I’ve commanded you and lo I am with you always even unto the ends of the ages the ends of the world now here we have it again pacific directions that we are to go and make disciples not believers make disciples followers of Christ people that have Jesus living in them and are following his ways.

▶ 13:25 The question is and I’m speaking to Mountainside Ministries and I’m speaking to every church in the earth today the question is will this church will the other churches out there will the churches attendees the members or maybe they’re not members maybe they’re just attendees maybe they just come to visit every once in a while. Will we be the fruitful followers. Or will we be like the Jews who live in sin. And turned away the nation’s that they were commended to teach or maybe we don’t live in sin as.

▶ 14:18 Followers of Christ we just ignore and turn away from the nation’s that we were commanded to teach that is the question are we just going to get absorbed in this life and forget that there’s a people out there that’s going to spend eternity in hell unless they keep hearing the message of the kingdom of God the gospel of Christ and second Timothy 2:4 and Paul addresses this none engaged in warfare entangles himself. With the affairs of this life that. He may please him who has enlisted him chosen him voluntary to heaven to be a soldier of Jesus Christ.

▶ 15:13 See not engaged in warfare the Bible tells us in Ephesians. Of darkness and we are at war [unclear]. And to do that kind of warfare we can’t be entangled. So much with the world raising our family working. Just enjoying life that we don’t have time to unite together to put our talents together to put our efforts together to get the word of God out to the nation’s and keep telling them tell them and keep telling them because that’s the responsibility of the fruitful followers of Jesus Christ to reach the nation’s in that same chapter same book or chapter 4 verse 10 of the same book.

▶ 16:12 Demas. Paul says has forsaken me having loved this present world he got entangled. He got entangled with. Forget the nation’s. Forget that we are commanded to take the gospel to the nation I just want to live my life and so we have an example of dimas doing that I. Submit to you. At the church in elsinore. You have the finances and you’ve got the talent you’ve got people with talent and on the side we got people with great talents and we got the finances I know we got the finances to reach our city to reach our state to reach our nation and to reach the world we’ve got the finances we got the people would tell it and we have the video of the in internet the online.

▶ 17:33 Opportunity to reach the whole world for Jesus Christ. It’s a matter of, and the question of will us fruitful followers of Christ. Take responsibility. Unite together get ourselves organized set aside time to reach the world for Christ in our generation. We’re going to go into a time of prayer now and this. Next portion is prayer time. And I submit to you the Bible says if my people will humble themselves and pray we need every every service should have a prayer time should have a worship time should have a word time.

▶ 18:32 If they would humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways we’ve got examine ourselves. Or any of these things to. Take the message to the nation’s. Turn from our wicked ways then will I hear from heaven then what I hear from him. Not only forgive their sin but I will heal their land because they’re gonna take my the medicine on my word to those that are sick in trespasses and sin and I’m I’m gonna heal them I’m gonna heal the nation’s if my people will humble themselves and pray the Bible says that effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man profits a lot in profits much and we are writers.

▶ 19:36 Positionally by the blood of Jesus Christ and we can grow into a conditional. Position of righteous a possession of righteousness by obeying his word and if we pray and turn from our wicked ways he will hear from him and heal our land through the message that we bring to our land our nation the world. This next segment is going to be about 8 minutes long and I. Asked you to kneel with me and let’s seek God together this song says it’s not on the mountain it’s not some great experience with God that we’re going to find God we can’t lean on Moses and and saw having these great experiences everybody’s looking for a great experience in God.

▶ 20:36 And many people can’t find God until they’re in the valley of destitution. You don’t have to go to the valley to find Jesus you don’t have to go to the mountaintop it’s down on your knees that you can find Jesus you can find the Lord.