God's Heart for Missions: From Genesis to Revelation

Let us have the same heart that god has. Let us listen for the heartbeat of god. Let's read about his heartbeat and his word and let's follow his example. That's what missions is all about. That's what missions conference is all about. It's about the heart of God trying to reconcile man to himself. And the greatest thing is he allows us to participate with him. How awesome is that? [01:19:18] (26 seconds)  #HeartOfGod

Missions must be incarnational. We go to other cultures. We go to other communities. We and we humble ourselves if necessary to be able to serve other people. We go to live amongst other people. God left heaven's glory to come live like you did. That's how the father sent him, was to come live amongst us. And that's what missions does. [01:02:28] (24 seconds)  #IncarnationalMissions

When god looks at the world, god doesn't see a whole bunch of different nationalities or races. What god sees is one human race. That's different skin colors, that different languages, the families of the earth were scattered by sin, and the rest of the Bible is god working to bring em all back together And that's what the this idea of missions is about is god establishing a desire to reunite what man has separated through sin. [00:51:40] (30 seconds)  #OneHumanRace

When Adam and Eve sinned, they broke the relationship that god had established between god and man. God created man to have a relationship with him but man rebelled against god and he broke that fellowship And when that fellowship was broken, man didn't go looking for god. Man did not eat of the fruit and find themselves in sin and say, we need to to fix this. We need to solve this. We need to reconcile ourselves with God. No. The Bible tells us that man hid themselves from God. [00:48:01] (33 seconds)  #HumanityRebelled

Their sin had separated them from God, and they were hiding from God. But the Bible tells us in Genesis that it was God in Genesis chapter three verse nine, that it was God who went looking for man and woman and said, where art thou? From the very beginning of time, it was God who was the one trying to reestablish the relationship between himself and his fallen creation and then in verse number 15, we find the first mention of the gospel. [00:48:34] (30 seconds)  #GodSoughtAdam

I know I've had wicked thoughts in my heart. I know I've gotten angry with people when I shouldn't have. I know I'm a sinner, and Jesus Christ was the only one that could rescue me from my sin. And that's the message we preach. So we are to go and proclaim to people repentance and remission through Jesus Christ. [01:02:01] (18 seconds)  #RepentanceAndRemission

Come see the difference that god makes. Come see how he changes lives. Israel was to be so different. They were to live according to god's holiness and god's standards and they were to follow after god. And as a result, they would be blessed by god. And as a result, the other nations were to come and to see Israel and go, wow. Look what their god can do. [00:53:18] (22 seconds)  #ShowGodsChange

But you as we know from reading the Bible, Israel failed in their mission. They didn't stand for god. They worship pagan gods. They rejected god and and as a result, god sent prophets to them to remind them of their role, that they were to be a light to the Gentiles, that they were spread the gospel, but instead of being a light, they became a closed door. [00:54:58] (22 seconds)  #IsraelFailedMission