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Know Your Role | 1 Peter 2:9
What if embracing your spiritual roles could transform your faith journey and impact your community profoundly? Join us to discover how you can embody the roles of prophet, priest, and king in your everyday life and become a beacon of leadership and guidance. Our exploration begins with joyous reflections on gathering for worship at First Baptist Church Powder Springs, where we celebrate the resilience and gratitude of our church family, whether we're sharing snow-filled family moments or participating online.
The teachings of Jesus offer more than just lessons—they're an invitation to approach life with wonder and humility. We delve into the life-altering wisdom of Jesus, our great prophet and high priest, whose words captivated people from all walks of life. Uncover how His sermons not only drew crowds but also continue to guide us today. As we prepare for our engaging women's conference and enriching Bible studies, learn how to let Jesus speak into your life and be a prophetic voice for others.
Moreover, we reflect on Jesus's transformative role as our high priest, who offers understanding and compassion. By drawing parallels between Jesus' love and the nurturing care we receive from figures like our mothers, we emphasize the power of faith and service. This episode culminates in a call to action: step into your potential as a leader, guiding others towards faith with love and humility. Whether you're contemplating your next spiritual step or seeking deeper community connections, this conversation promises to inspire and uplift.
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Amen. Well, aren't you glad you came to church this morning to put your hands together for all that God is doing in your church and our church and his church. Man, god is so good. It is so good to see all you crazy people who brave the snow and the ice and the cold weather, the 20 degree temps man y'all ain't playing around when it comes to worshiping Jesus. I love it, and maybe you're online this morning and you're still in your pajamas and you're on your couch and you got a hot cup of coffee. We're a little jealous of you, but we know that you want to be here too, and so we're just so thankful for everyone that is here, everyone that is online. We believe that, wherever you are, that the Holy Spirit, that Jesus, is with you, and we are so thankful just to be able to do life together as our First Baptist Church Powder Springs family. We're so thankful just to be able to do life together as our First Baptist Church Powder Springs family. We're so thankful for all of our first time guests. I've already met many this morning and maybe you're watching for your first time online. We just want to say thank you for going on this journey with us.
Speaker 1:Who all built a snowman this weekend? Raise your hand. You built a snowman. Anybody have a snowball fight? Anybody put anybody's face in the snow? I don't know, do we have some fun? And I had a big, just a big dad fail this weekend. I told the kids Friday morning. I said, look, I know it's snowing, but it's gonna snow even more this afternoon and it's gonna start melting up and it's gonna be even a little bit warmer. We're gonna go out Friday. So I took him out yesterday and took Brooklyn and Cruz out and we were just crunching around in the ice right and walking through the yard and like throwing like big shards of ice at one another and I slid Cruz down the slide of our playground. I think he topped a hundred miles an hour down the slide, hit the ice, kept sliding and he was crying, hands were cold and Brooklyn was having fun. I was like man, this is the biggest dad fail ever. But they're two and five, they don't know any different. They live in Georgia, so it all went great. But man, what a fun weekend it has been and we're just so thankful for the beauty of God's creation. Wasn't it a beautiful drive here? Isn't it beautiful in your neighborhood and out and around man. It's just so cool what God's doing.
Speaker 1:Before we get started, I just wanna say thank you. I wanna say thank you for everybody who came to our night of worship and prayer this past Wednesday night. Man the Lord was with us. He moved in a powerful way. I had people saying let's do this every week, let's do this every month. We're going to shoot for every quarter right now, but we do want to continue to pray together like that, so we're looking at another time in the spring.
Speaker 1:I want you to know that on February the 2nd February the 2nd we have a Next Step Lunch coming up. If you've never been a part of our Next Step Lunch, maybe you're new here, maybe you've been coming for a while, maybe you haven't had a chance to join yet. Maybe you just want to learn more about what God is doing behind the scenes or more opportunities for you to grow closer to God. Here at First Baptist Powder Springs, you can come to this Next Step Lunch. It's a free lunch 12 o'clock, right back here in our fellowship hall, right behind this wall, right here on Sunday, february 2. Free childcare, free lunch will just last an hour, so we would love for you to go ahead and get registered. You can call the church office, you can click the QR code, you can go online and get registered for that.
Speaker 1:Also, I want you to know it was gonna be next Sunday, but now it's gonna be the following Sunday, january the 26th. We're gonna have Baptism Sunday and it's just gonna be a Sunday. That's set aside for anybody and everybody who needs to be baptized. Maybe you've been saved. You haven't been baptized yet. Maybe you haven't been biblically baptized immersion under the water and maybe you know, in order to have your best year yet, you need to follow Jesus in your baptism. Maybe you know people you have family members, friends, neighbors, people that in your life that you know they need to be baptized.
Speaker 1:Next week I am preaching on Jesus's baptism and the importance of our baptism, and in the following week, the 26th, we will have Baptism Sunday. So next week is a huge opportunity, if you're online or in the room, to not only be here but to bring people with you that you want to see God to do a move in their life. I would encourage you bring them next week for this message and, lord willing, they'll get baptized. And if you need to get baptized on January, the 22nd, 26th I got it wrong the 26th. Let's pray, heavenly Father, we love you and God. You're so good and Father. We just pray, Lord that we would hear your voice this morning, your voice that only comes from your word, through your spirit. Help us to learn to live like Jesus. Help us to learn to live with Jesus, help us to learn to live for Jesus and God. We pray that all for your glory, and we pray these things in Jesus' name and all God's people said amen. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1:Here we go, we're in this series that's called your Best Year, yet your Best Year Yet we're continuing on. It's a series all about the life and the ministry of Jesus. We started it in December with Christmas. We're working through it all the way through Easter, and this morning I want to talk about Jesus as prophet, priest and king. You know we all have people. We have these needs in our life. God has created you with needs. God has created me with needs in our life that we need people around us that we need to learn from. We have people around us that we need to receive love from. We need people around us that we even learn how to live life better, maybe even people that we look up to.
Speaker 1:I was thinking back and even back in high school God put a friend in my life. His name was Jason. I was a back and even back in high school, god put a friend in my life. His name was Jason. I was a sophomore and Jason was a senior and Jason was. He was the quarterback of our school and he was one of the best leaders in our school. Everybody just really looked up to him and Jason and I we just had a great friendship and I loved hanging out with Jason because he had a car right and we could go wherever and hang out and do whatever, and so Jason and I would hang out and he was a couple of years older than me but I just appreciated the way that Jason poured into me. He talked to me about how to just navigate life and navigate high school and transition for college and all that kind of stuff, and Jason would just, he would just spend time with me and we would just hang out and have these conversations. But Jason also loved Jesus and so Jason would pour into me. And man, I just remember thinking so many times man, I want to be like Jason. I look up to him. He was like a hero in my life and I want to. I remember just thinking man when I'm a senior. I want to pour into people like he has been pouring into people too.
Speaker 1:Well, god puts people in our lives that we learn from, we receive love from that, we learn how to live like and here's the way that the language that God uses it. He uses that language prophet people that we learn from, priest people that we receive love from, and king people that we want to become like. But ultimately in life, we know that all of that boils down into Jesus. Jesus is the ultimate, he's the perfect, he's the eternal prophet, priest and king. You know, it's interesting in life how people that they want to learn, they want to be loved, they want to live like other people, they often turn to the wrong people and they often turn to the wrong places and they often turn to the wrong things.
Speaker 1:I just want to remind you that everyone wants someone to be their prophet, their priest and their king. In fact, in our life, this is the way that God has wired you. Think about this. In your life and through your life, we are all looking for a prophet to speak into our lives. It's the way that God has wired you. Think about this in your life and through your life. We are all looking for a prophet to speak into our lives. We're all looking for a priest to love us, no matter what. We're all looking for a king to lead our life and we're going to see that in the scriptures and how Jesus fulfills this in our life and how we can fulfill this as well through Jesus in the lives of others. So, in other words, we need fulfills this in our life and how we can fulfill this as well through Jesus in the lives of others. So, in other words, we need to see this in Jesus in order to see this in ourselves.
Speaker 1:So this morning, I just want to challenge you. Here's kind of the big thought. The big idea is I want to encourage you and challenge you to know your role. In other words, what is it that God created you to accomplish? Who is it that God created you to be? What calling does God have on your life? This would be a little bit like this morning taking a spiritual personality test. I don't know if you're an Enneagram person or if you're a disc person or a Myers-Briggs person, but you probably have never taken a spiritual personality test quite like this one that we need to know Jesus's roles for us in order to know our role for him. In other words, when you know who Jesus is, you know then better who you are created to be. So we're going to look at these three roles of Jesus.
Speaker 1:Jesus is prophet, jesus priest, jesus king, and what it means for you and what it means for your life. Here we go. We'll look at number one. Jesus is the true prophet. Everybody say prophet. Jesus is the true prophet. Number one we look at Deuteronomy, chapter 18.
Speaker 1:Now, before I get there, I need you to understand that, just like in our life today, that we have a lot of people in our world, those who do not know Jesus, those who are not following Jesus, that we know that they are always looking for truth in other places and other people and other things. And there are people today that are looking for truth everywhere. Maybe they are scouring social media looking for that perfect post, that perfect person to follow to help them to achieve what they're trying to achieve. Maybe they're trying to achieve financial status, or maybe it's trying to achieve a successful love life, or maybe just more success in their career, or maybe they just want to be more happy or healthy. Maybe they are just searching the internet for that person that can finally just show them the answers to their life that they're looking for, or commercials pop up about books or workshop or masterclasses, or maybe you get email newsletters, or maybe walk into bookstores in the self-help section. Everybody desperately wants a prophet to teach them how to live life.
Speaker 1:The same thing was true in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, before the Bible was completed, god sent people. God sent prophets into the lives of the people of God, and those prophets would speak for God, the words of God, so that people would know how to believe and how to live. And so there were probably some 50 different prophets that were named throughout scripture. There could have been hundreds of others that we were not aware of, and what prophets would do is they would speak for God to people. So Deuteronomy 18, this is very interesting.
Speaker 1:Verse 15, says the Lord, your God, will raise up for you a one prophet like me from among you, from your brothers, and it is to him that you shall listen. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers and I will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak to them all. That I command him. And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. Here's what we see, even back in the Old Testament. This is even Moses writing, and we see the prophecy that Moses prophesied that of all of these, maybe hundreds of prophets, that there would be one to come, one to listen to, one to come, one to listen to, one to trust, one to learn from, and his name is Jesus. Can I get an amen? His name is Jesus. Jesus is the true prophet. The question is are you going to Jesus first? Are you going to Jesus most when you need truth, when you need answers in your life, when you're going through a difficult situation and you desperately need wisdom? And you've got options or opportunities or directions and you're not sure which one to take. You're not sure which one to go to. God has given you the ultimate, true, great, eternal prophet, and his name is Jesus.
Speaker 1:John, chapter six, verse 14, says when the people saw the signs that Jesus had done, these were even the people that did not recognize him as the Messiah, the people of the world, when they would watch Jesus, they were just so amazed and they would say this is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world. When you read your Bible and you read in the gospels and you watch Jesus and you watch his life, it's amazing what happens when Jesus teaches there's always a crowd, because the way that Jesus teaches and what Jesus taught people could not help but listen. And people because they would learn so much. And even the Bible uses this word very sparingly and often. After Jesus taught, the Bible says that the people were astonished.
Speaker 1:Whenever Jesus would teach, we would see that even children would run to Jesus, that they would want to be around him. The Bible says that people, even people that were very well educated, were astonished. So children are learning and doctors are learning and lawyers are learning and professors are learning, and everyday, ordinary, common day. People like you and me are learning from Jesus and that's why we are called to run to the word of God. That's why we're called to run in prayer to Jesus to get the truth and to get the answers Jesus would. Often he would teach truth or he would tell stories or he would ask questions, and Jesus would use all of these different ways to teach in order to get to the hearts of people.
Speaker 1:In fact, I would encourage you that, when you go to the word of God on a daily basis, don't wait for God's word to impress you. Rather, when you open up God's word, start with the word wow, wow. Jesus, I can't wait for you to speak to me right now and, jesus, I pray that you would astonish me with your truth, with what you want to say in my life, because that's what Jesus loves to do. So we need to look to Jesus as our great, our true, our eternal, our ultimate prophet, but in the same way, because Jesus is the great, true prophet and he has called us to be like him. Hear me, jesus has called you to be a prophet like him, and we are called to speak into people's lives and to speak the truth, to speak the word of God into them. We are called to be people that, when we share the word of God, we are allowing the voice of God to speak into their life, because you have people in your life and I have people in my life that do not know the truth and that do not get into the word of God and that do not know the wisdom and they do not know the ways of Jesus Christ. And we get to be the ones that Jesus uses to move into their life like a prophet, and not stand up above them and not be brash with them and not be cocky or arrogant with them, but to humbly just share with them the word of God and what the word of God says, and let God do the work through the power of his Holy Spirit. That's why, as a church, we do conferences and we make sure that we are always teaching the word of God in everything that we do.
Speaker 1:Like we have the women's conference that's coming up, abide in 25. On January, the 25th, we already have over 150 ladies signed up. I'm hearing from ladies coming from all kinds of different states coming in in order to be a part of this women's conference. Ladies, I want to encourage you sign up, make sure and share the social media with all the ladies in your life, your neighborhood, your family, your friends, your workplace, whoever it is, because we want Jesus to speak into their life because he is the great, true prophet. Can I get an amen? We want Jesus to speak into their life because he is the great, true prophet. Can I get an amen? We want Jesus to speak.
Speaker 1:We've got ladies Bible study starting this Wednesday morning, this coming Wednesday morning, and you can be a part of a ladies Bible study. If you're online or in here, you can be a part of those. We have a ladies group over in our Connection Center happening not this Wednesday, but in the next Wednesday starting up. We want to make sure that Jesus is speaking into the lives of our men, the lives of our ladies and the lives of our teenagers. We have a D-NOW coming up, february 7 through 9. And we're so excited about this D-NOW that all of our teenagers get to be under the word of God. They get to learn from Jesus.
Speaker 1:Why? Why do we preach the word of God? Why do we teach the word of God in our groups, in our Sunday schools, in our connection classes? Why do we always return to God's word? Because that's where we find the words of Jesus, that's where we find the truths of Jesus, that's where we find the wisdom of Jesus, that's where we find the wisdom of Jesus. And if you're like me and you don't know what to do in life, then I need to hear from Jesus on a regular basis. Not only is Jesus our true prophet, but Jesus is also our high priest.
Speaker 1:Everybody say priest, jesus is also our high priest. What would the priest do in the Old Testament? The priest would be the one to minister to people. The priest would be the one to make the sacrifices. The priest would be the one who pray for people. The priest would be the one who serve in the temple. You ever notice today that everybody is looking for someone to just love them, for someone to just care for them, for someone to just love them, for someone to just care for them, for someone to show them grace, for someone to show them mercy, for someone to accept them, for someone to help them. That is what the priests were called to do with the Old Testament people, as they would go to God for people and they would go to people for God. Well, here's what we see in God's word, as we have probably tens of thousands of priests throughout the whole Old Testament.
Speaker 1:1 Samuel 2, verse 35 says I will raise up for myself a faithful, a one faithful priest who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind, and I will build him a sure house and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever. In other words, even from the Old Testament, jesus, as our high priest, was being prophesied. How is Jesus, our high priest, was being prophesied. How is Jesus, our high priest? Jesus is the one who loves you more than anybody else. Jesus is the one who deeply cares about you. Isn't it amazing that Jesus is the one who knows you best, but yet he loves you most? Jesus is the one who takes care and he provides for all of your needs. Jesus is the one who goes to God for you and goes to you for God. Jesus is the one who made that one perfect, final sacrifice, not of a lamb, not of a bull, but of his own body. Jesus went to the cross on your behalf and died for your sin, ministered for your spiritual need so that you could be saved, so that you could have a relationship with God, so that you can be in heaven for all of eternity. Put your hands together right now for Jesus and all that he has done for you as your high priest. Here's what Hebrews chapter four, verses 14 through 16, says.
Speaker 1:You ever thought about Jesus, the high priest, in your life? We don't need religious priests in our life. Why? Because we have a priest, we have the high priest, we have the eternal priest, the one final priest of the eternal priest, the one final priest, it says in verse 14, since then, we have a great high priest. He's passed through the heavens, which means he's already been where you're trying to get to. He knows the way, he knows what it looks like, he knows how to get there and he's the one leading you Jesus, he's the son of God. So what do we do? Because we have this great high priest, because he's already passed of God. So what do we do? Because we have this great high priest, because he's already passed through the heaven? What do we do? We hold fast our confession. In other words, don't ever let go of Jesus, because he never lets go of you. Always confess Jesus, always pray to Jesus, always believe in Jesus, always trust Jesus and never stop. Why? Because he is always at the right hand of God, ministering on your behalf.
Speaker 1:For we do not have a high priest who's unable to sympathize with our weaknesses. You know what the devil loves to do is he loves to tempt you. He loves to tempt you into thinking you don't need to go to Jesus, because he doesn't understand what you're going through. He doesn't understand what it feels like to be you. He doesn't understand your weaknesses, he doesn't understand everything that you're experiencing. So why would you go to Jesus? Why don't you just go somewhere else? Go to someone else, go anywhere else, but don't go to Jesus. The devil loves to tell you, but the Bible says we don't have a high priest who's unable to sympathize with our weaknesses. We have a high priest who, in every way, has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. In other words, you can't bring anything to Jesus that he doesn't sympathize with you for. You can't bring anything to Jesus that he doesn't understand or that he already has not himself been tempted in. So what do we do? Because we have Jesus as this high priest, who understands, who sympathizes, who's passed through the heavens, who loves you, what do we do? With confidence, you draw near the throne of grace of God so that you may receive mercy, that's forgiveness of sin, so that you may find grace. That's help in your life, in your time of need.
Speaker 1:I think we're always in a time of need. I feel like I am always in a time of need. I feel like God always keeps something in my life to keep me on my knees, something in my life to keep me on my knees? Why does God seem to keep things in our life that we are desperate for him? Because he wants to keep you close, because he wants to keep you near, because he is inviting you, he's welcoming you to draw close to him confidently, that you can come to God as your father and you can say God, this is what is going on in my life and it hurts, it stinks. I don't like it, I don't want it, I didn't choose it. God, I need help. God, I need your power. God, I need your love. God, I need your wisdom. God, I need you.
Speaker 1:Are you going to Jesus for your greatest love needs? Are you going to Jesus as the one who cares for you the most and who can minister you to the most? Are you going to Jesus for what he can do in your heart, in your spirit, in your soul, the work that only God can do in your life, the work that we need most, and receiving that from Jesus? Are you then, like Jesus, becoming a priest to others, in serving them, in meeting their needs, in caring for them, in loving them?
Speaker 1:I think about who has probably been throughout my entire life, who's probably been the greatest earthly priest in my life and I was just thinking about it. It's like you know that's an easy one it's my mom. My mom has always been there for me, even when I'm unlovable. My mom loves me. She has taken care of more needs in my life than I could ever understand. Now that I see my wife with our kids and I mean she keeps our children alive this is really what moms do, right. And just thinking about my mom and how she has always no matter if I deserve it or earn it she has always taken care of every need of my life until I got married. And now that's what my wife does and she just loves me and she takes care of me and I'm so appreciative of her. I'm so thankful for her and thankful for my mom. I'm so thankful for our church family. It is so amazing to see how this church family takes care of one another's needs. Amazing to see how this church family takes care of one another's needs, which is why you need to be a part of a group. This is why you I would even encourage you as Jesus serves you. I would encourage you that you would serve others.
Speaker 1:We call our volunteer team our dream team, and I believe that God has given you a gift to serve and God calls every single one of us to serve in our church in some way. You can go by our Next Step station or you can call our church office. You can go online at any time and the question is are you using what Jesus has given you to serve in your church for him? Next Sunday it was going to be today, because of the snow, we're not doing it. Next Sunday is going to be our dream team rally, our dream team lunch, where we just wanna appreciate and celebrate everybody who is on one of our serving teams in our church and we just wanna say thank you. Maybe you wanna be on one of our teams and you can register for that lunch and you can come in and be a part of it and learn which team to be on. Don't come to the lunch and not join a team. That's not allowed. But you can come to lunch and join a team, or if you're on a team, we want you there.
Speaker 1:That's the importance of finding a group, why? Because when you're a part of a group, that's when you're around people who can know your needs and minister to your needs. And that's when you're around people that you can know their needs and you can minister to their needs. That's the way that God has designed the church. That's why we have ministries like our Happy Hearts ministry, who has a lunch this coming Thursday at 1130. It's our senior adult ministry. They get together and they love each other and they meet one another's needs.
Speaker 1:Why? Because Jesus is our high priest and he has called us to be like a priest to other people. People need the love of Jesus that you have, that you can show them by giving it to them, so then they can receive the love of Jesus. The way in which that you love Jesus around our community, in Powder Springs or in Hiram, or out in Austell or Smyrna or Marietta or Kennesaw or Atlanta, wherever it is that you're going, man, I want to encourage you that you go like a prophet, be ready to share the word of God. You go like a priest that you're always ready to share the love of God. You go like a priest that you're always ready to share the love of God. And then we see that Jesus is our eternal king.
Speaker 1:Everyone say king, jesus is our eternal king, the kings of the Old Testament. What would they do? They would be the ones who would lead the people. They would be the ones who would make the wise decisions, overall decisions for all of the people. Sometimes there are some earthly kings that they would be the ones who they would be the ones who would make the wise decisions, overall decisions for all of the people. Sometimes there are some earthly kings that they would be the ones who they would be wrongly worshiped, served. We see, when Jesus comes on the scene, it's really interesting the way that this happens in John, chapter 18, verse 37.
Speaker 1:Even when Jesus is being arrested and he's about to be crucified, pilate said to Jesus so are you a king? You are a king. Right, you say you are. Are you a real king? And Jesus answered. He said you say that I'm a king. In that language, in that culture, he would be saying you answered correctly yes, I am a king. Jesus said for this purpose that I'm a king. I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice. In other words, jesus is saying yes, I am the king that fulfills all the other kings and all the other kingships all around. I am the great, true, eternal king. I'm the one final, ultimate king that everyone can find there's worship in.
Speaker 1:In the Bible we see that Jesus is king. You ever notice this? He's king over heaven and he's king over earth. Jesus is king over all of Satan and angels and demons. Jesus is king over all of sin and evil. Jesus is king over all other kings in all nations. Jesus is king over all sickness and disease. Jesus is king over all death and the grave. Jesus is king over all salvation and eternity grave. Jesus is king over all salvation and eternity. And Jesus is king over you and over me. Put your hands together right now because Jesus is king and we believe. Because he is king, he is worthy to be served. He is worthy to be worshiped and he loves it when you serve him and when you worship him.
Speaker 1:Ephesians, chapter 1, verse 20, says God worked in Christ when he raised Jesus from the dead and he seated Jesus at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And God put all things under Jesus' feet and he gave Jesus as head over everything to the church. The church which is, we are his body, we are the fullness of Jesus, who fills all in all. I would not know what to do if I did not have Jesus as my king, and neither would you. I believe that on a daily basis, we need to remember that Jesus is our prophet, he's our truth, jesus is our priest, he's our love. Jesus is our king, he is your worship and in the same way as we look to Jesus as our king, hear me, he's also calling you to be a king like him. How? By leading people to him, by leading people to him.
Speaker 1:I was thinking in my life, who is it in my life that has led me to Jesus the most? Over and over and over again, it's my dad. He wasn't perfect, he's not perfect, but he's faithful. And I would get to see my dad the same guy behind closed doors as he was in public. And my dad just always reminded me that Jesus is worth worshiping and serving and following and living for and like Jesus as we look to him as king. What a reminder that he has even called us to be like a king, like him, as we're leading others.
Speaker 1:Who is it that God has given you influence over? Who is it that God has called you to lead? Who is it that looks up to you? Who is it that depends on you? Your number one role in their life is to lead them to Jesus. Why? Because Jesus lived as our prophet, jesus died as our priest and Jesus rose as our king. So what do we do? We live like Jesus as our prophet, we live with Jesus as our prophet, we live with Jesus as our priest and we live for Jesus as our king. So I told you, this is a little bit of like a personality assessment Not like the Enneagram, not like Myers-Briggs, not like the disc or anything else with just one simple question Are you more prophet, priest or king? You have to see Jesus' three roles prophet, priest and king in order to know your role in life for him. In other words, some of you are gonna be more prophet.
Speaker 1:Some of you, you just love studying and teaching or talking about or explaining the word of God. You just love speaking the word of God into people. That means that God has created you to be more like a prophet like Jesus than anything else. Some of you, you just love to love other people. You see that one person in the room that nobody else sees and they're by their self, and you make a beeline for that person and you just wanna love them like Jesus loves them.
Speaker 1:You're that type person that can look into somebody's eyes and they tell you that everything's good, everything's fine, everything's okay. But you don't believe them because you see the truth. You're the type person that when you hear of someone's need, when everyone else just says I'll pray for them, you run to their need. I want you to know that you are being just like Jesus. You are being like a priest to them and you are glorifying God in that way. And some of you God has just created you to be a leader that, for whatever reason, that people just naturally flock to you. They naturally follow you, they naturally want to help you, they naturally listen to you. You can offer them wisdom and you can lead them to him. And God has given you a very unique gift of leadership and our sinfulness wants to use it for ourself. But the spirit of God says don't use this for you, use this for him.
Speaker 1:So my question for you as you're starting your best year. Yet are you more a prophet, are you more a priest or are you more a king? Because God has given us a mission field our community, the dying world all around us. And this week you're gonna go into the world and you're gonna get to be like a prophet, priest or king as you live on mission for Jesus, because he lived on mission for you as your prophet and your priest and your king. Let's all bow our heads and close our eyes. Every head bowed, every eye closed, no one looking around.
Speaker 1:And maybe you're just here this morning and you just need to tell Jesus right now. You just need to say Jesus, I just wanna praise you, I wanna praise you as my prophet, I wanna praise you as my priest, I wanna praise you as my king, and you might just wanna tell him. So, jesus, help me to be the prophet, priest and king to others, to lead them to you. And maybe you're here this morning and you can't pray that prayer yet, because you haven't given your life to Jesus yet, he's not saved you yet, he hasn't forgiven you of your sins yet, you haven't started a relationship with him yet. I would love to help you with that.
Speaker 1:I believe the Bible says that today is the day of your salvation and I believe that today is the day that you can give your life totally, fully over to Jesus and he will save you and he will forgive you and give you a relationship with God and you'll have a home in heaven for all of eternity, and nothing can take that away. I can't save you and I can't pray this prayer for you, but you can follow me in this prayer. You can pray something like this from your heart, your own words to God. You can say God, I believe in you and I need you. And God, I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sins and I ask you to forgive me of all of my sins because of his death. And you can tell God, god, and I believe that Jesus rose from the dead, he's alive and he's real and I ask him to come into my heart, to come into my life.
Speaker 1:And the Bible says that if you believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, you will be saved. Confess Jesus as your Lord right now. Jesus, be my Lord, be my Savior, be my God, god, we thank you for that truth. We thank you for everyone that prayed that prayer. We thank you for everyone that prayed that prayer. We thank you for everyone that got saved this morning. We love you in Jesus' name. And all God's people said