Fill the Throne Room Revelation 7:910

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Fill the Throne Room!Revelation 79-10
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Fill the Throne Room

• because People need to be there!
• because God wants you involved!
• because We Can!

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PEOPLE need to be there!

• YOU!
• Will you be there?
• Are you sure?

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PEOPLE need to be there!

• 1 John 511-13
• And the testimony is this, that God has given us
  eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He
  who has the Son has the life he who does not
  have the Son of God does not have the life.
  These things I have written to you who
  believe in the name of the Son of
  God, so that you may know that
  you have eternal life.

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PEOPLE need to be there!

• YOU!
• YOUR NEIGHBORS your people
• Same language and worldview.
• No barriers of culture.

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PEOPLE need to be there!

• YOU!
• YOUR NEIGHBORS your people
• YOUR NEIGHBORS
• every people

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Jesus view of neighbor

• Luke 1029-37
• Across cultural barriers
• Across even hated barriers
• The heathen was the hero
• Such are OUR neighbors

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God wants YOU involved!

• His Word

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• Creation to Babel
• Abrahamic Call/Covenant
• Jacob/sons/Joseph
• Mosaic Covenant
• Kingdom/Psalms
• Prophets
• Christ
• Epistles

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• Creation to Babel
• Humankind created to glorify God as His
  image-bearers
• Fall of mankind, setback in that calling
• Flood brought judgment
• Judgment at Babel yields ethnic
  diversity future focus on bringing
  them to God

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• Creation to Babel
• Abrahamic Call/Covenant
• Gen 123
• and in you all the families of the earth
  will be blessed."
• Gen 2218
• in your seed all the nations of the
  earth shall be blessed.

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• Creation to Babel
• Abrahamic Call/Covenant
• Jacob/sons/Joseph
• -Blessing affirmed to Jacob
• Gen 2814-15
• in your descendants shall
  all the families of the earth
  be blessed.

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• Creation to Babel
• Abrahamic Call/Covenant
• Jacob/sons/Joseph
• -Blessing affirmed to Jacob
• -Complacency, dysfunction in family
• -Their evil becomes odious to nations
• -Favorite son Joseph lost to Jacob
• -Joseph honors God
• -God is glorified among Egyptians
  all nations!

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• Creation to Babel
• Abrahamic Call/Covenant
• Jacob/sons/Joseph
• Mosaic Covenant

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• In the Mosaic Covenant
• Ex 195-6
• you shall be My own possession among all the
  peoples, for all the earth is Mine and you shall
  be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• In the Mosaic Covenant
• The Law was not just for individual morality,
  but it was also to give the fledgling nation
  judicial and religious statutes upon which they
  could be a testimony to the surrounding nations.
• George Olson
• What in the World is God Doing?, p. 23

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• In the Mosaic Covenant
• Ex 195-6
• you shall be My own possession among all the
  peoples, for all the earth is Mine and you shall
  be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
• In responding to the law, Israel began a
  CYCLE of reminder, rebellion, rebuke
  and restoration seen throughout
  rest of Old Testamentin rebuke
  God uses and reaches the nations.
  As seen with Jacob/Joseph.

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• Creation to Babel
• Abrahamic Call/Covenant
• Jacob/sons/Joseph
• Mosaic Covenant
• Kingdom/Psalms/Exile/Prophets
• Nations priority in every major book from
  Samuel to Malachi

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• In the Kingdom/Psalms/Exile/Prophets
• Important nations Scriptures
• I Kings 841-43 Psalm 911, 227, 4610, 664,
  67, 96, 1051 Isaiah 421-4, 496, 5210-15,
  4310, 448, 4522 Jeremiah 317, Joel 228,
  Micah 41-4, Habakkuk 214, Haggai 27,
  Zechariah 211, 910, Malachi 111

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• Creation to Babel
• Abrahamic Call/Covenant
• Jacob/sons/Joseph
• Mosaic Covenant
• Kingdom/Psalms/Exile/Prophets
• Nations priority in every major book from
  Samuel to Malachi
• Repeat of Cycle, the Exiles touch the
  nations

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• In the Kingdom/Psalms/Exile/Prophets
• (The)dispersion of the Jewsproduced a number
  of positive effects It cured them of idolatry
  It forced them to establish synagogues for the
  study and exposition of the Word It
  forced them into situations where the godly
  remnant did bear powerful witness to
  the true God.
• George Olson
• What in the World is God Doing?, p. 29

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• Creation to Babel
• Abrahamic Call/Covenant
• Jacob/sons/Joseph
• Mosaic Covenant
• Kingdom/Psalms/Exile/Prophets
• Christ

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Priority of Nations in the Word

• In the words/ministry of Christ
• Half of recorded words of Christ in
  His last 40 days of ministry are about
  the nations.
• The church begins to go out immediately
  and does so throughout the New
  Testament.
• We see the importance in the next two
  priorities.

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God wants YOU involved!

• His Word
• His Great Commission

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God wants YOU involved!

• Matt 2818-20
• "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and
  on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all
  the 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."

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God wants YOU involved!

• His Word
• His Great Commission
• Final Marching Orders
• His authority and presence
• Requires a response

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God wants YOU involved!

• His Word
• His Great Commission
• His Return

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God wants YOU involved!

• Matthew 2414
• "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in
  the whole world as a testimony to all the
  nations, and then the end will come.

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God wants YOU involved!

• Current Joshua Project estimate of Unreached
  People Groups today
• about SIX THOUSAND!

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God wants YOU involved!

• God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a
  worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshippers
  for himself from every tribe and tongue and
  people and nation. He has an inexhaustible
  enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among
  the nations. Therefore let us bring our
  affections into line with His, and, for the sake
  of His name, let us renounce the quest for
  worldly comforts, and join His global purpose.
• John Piper
• Let the Nations Be Glad, p. 40

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WE CAN!

• We have a call strategy
• and power to fulfill it.
• We have tools here and now.

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Global Impact Ministry Tools and Opportunities

• Calendar in your hand
• Pray! (calendar prayer guide)
• Engage! (see inside front cover)
• Bulletin Insert in your hand
• Global Goodies Dessert 14th
• ST Trips Lunches 9th/16th
• Foyer Today
• Meet a missionary!

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Global Impact Ministry Tools and Opportunities

• Getting Connected
• www.grace-bible.org/globalimpact
• Pat or Bel 979-693-2911

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WE CAN!

• We have a call strategy
• and power to fulfill it.
• We have tools here and now.
• Our challenge.

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• the church is bound to engage with the Lord of
  Glory in His cause. It is our unspeakable
  privilege to be caught up with Him in the
  greatest movement in history the ingathering of
  the elect from all tribes and tongues and
  peoples and nations
• John Piper
• Let the Nations Be Glad, p. 223

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