Luke 12: 3548

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Luke 12 35-48
Mobilizing for Ministry
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IMPACT

• I - Instructing in Gods Word
• M - Mobilizing for Ministry
• P - Praying with Faith
• A - Adoring God in Worship
• C - Caring Community
• T - Telling Others About Jesus

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Mobilizing for Ministry

• Wait
• Watch
• Work

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1. Wait for the Master

• Waiting to look forward to
• Be Dressed - Roll up your Sleeves
• Christianity is not a spectator sport
• Keep their lamps burning - Always on duty
  and it will cost you something

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2. Watching for the Master

• Watching Stay awake, to be in constant
  readiness, to be on the alert.
• Believers will be blessed
• Servants will be served

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Be Ready

• 1 Thessalonians 52 For you know very
  well that the day of the Lord will come like a
  thief in the night.
• Revelation 33 But if you do not wake up,
  I will come like a thief, and you will not know
  at what time I will come to you.
• Revelation 1615 Behold, I come like a
  thief! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps
  his clothes with him, so that he may not go
  naked and be shamefully exposed.

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3. Work for the Master

• Managers Must Manage
• Servants Must Serve
• The Responsible are Rewarded When the Master
  Returns

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Work for the Master (cont.)

• doing - Not everyone who says to me, Lord,
  Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only
  he who does the will of my Father who is in
  heaven. Matt. 721
• Job description - So you also, when you have
  done everything you were told to do, should say,
  We are unworthy servants we have only done our
  duty. Luke 17 10
• v. 48 - Privilege brings with it proportionate
  responsibility

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Action Steps

• Start calling yourself a servant
• Say this phrase, Jesus could come back
  today
• Use your wait time as worship time
• If you are not already serving then start
  serving immediately

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