Vision Day: Growing Into the Fullness of Christ

So I don't know about you, but these are three scriptures in Ephesians that God Jesus says, I desire fullness. I desire maturity. I invite you into this journey of growing into the fullness of Christ. That's his vision for us. He wants you full of it. He wants you full of him in every area of your life, every dimension of your life, every relationship in your life, every thought in your life, every emotion in your life, everything. Everything about you is filled with him. [01:06:24] (36 seconds)  #FullnessOfChrist

See, the goal is not even your fullness. The goal is that your fullness would overflow into other people. That's the point. He wants to bless you so you can be a blessing. If you don't feel you are a blessing, you will not be a blessing. So he wants to make you full of him. Go tell your neighbor, I think he wants you full. I wants you full of it. [01:07:57] (27 seconds)  #OverflowIntoOthers

And so that's why the tree is so important. As we grow and fruitfulness starts to happen, we need to go deep with our roots. It says here that strengthen your stakes and deepen your pegs. And I really fell for a season, even this year. I really feel and sense that God is saying, I want your foundation to be strong, your roots to be strong. Why? Because otherwise, you fall over because your roots are not deep enough. And so there has to be a capacity increase in all of us. God wants to grow us, each one of us. [01:28:26] (31 seconds)  #RootedAndStrong

There's lots of other places. But for example, Jesus talks about it in John ten ten. He is for the for the devil comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Why? That's the devil. Don't don't blame all that stuff on on on God. Why? No. No. God doesn't do that kind of stuff. It's the devil who does the stuff in the world. But Jesus well, he's Jesus says, I come that you might have life. And it says here in the AMP amplified that you may enjoy life. What? And be filled with what? Abundance. Same thing. The abundance of God, so full of it that you overflow. [01:07:19] (38 seconds)  #AbundantLife

All of it. This is our God relationship. He makes us honor him. But here, it's about the vertical relationship of how we do life together, how we are understanding life and, living stones. We are built together, it says there, in the living temple. Right? Also here, by the way, is is a house of prayer for all nations is here. Become a house of prayer, a dwelling place of God, and, of course, we are the dwelling place. Of course, it's the quadrants, and you put everything into the various areas connected to this whole thing. [01:17:23] (29 seconds)  #HouseOfPrayer

I said, when you go golfing, then you you come there, you have the you have all of heaven with you. You got the angels, everything with you. You're full of the holy spirit. You're full of it. And you come here with the people who maybe don't know Christ. At that moment, the golf course becomes your mandate, becomes your your your assignments, and and God wants that golf course to be baptized in him. To be baptized, the influence of him starts happening. The influence of where you are as a lawyer, at the school. When you walk in the door, it starts to look a little bit like Jesus because you are there. And you start to influence and you're smelling fragrance of Christ, you start to influence the things around you. [01:19:14] (40 seconds)  #EveryplaceIsAMission

I suggest this is transforming the world with the good news of Jesus. It is transforming your mind into the identity of Christ that you always was when you become a Christian, but you have no clue who you are. That's what it is. Here is, of course, about here, but also about God and also about here, how we live as a church. So the fivefold is for everybody. You are all fivefold, because you're all meant to express Jesus. [01:23:55] (29 seconds)  #FivefoldForAll

Now this is the community. This is where we have life groups. This is where we do life together. This is where people in the world that's what here here's where people still go. Will know us by our love. This is how we learn to love one another. This is pastoral. This is this is life group. This is marriages. This is families. This is friendships. This is all these things that we do, our interrelational things. It's all about the whole thing is all about relationships. Ships. Right? [01:16:47] (36 seconds)  #KnownByLove

It's because you gotta get to know that stuff that you are. You don't need to get to know your new creation. You gotta get to know what Jesus has done in your life. What is your inheritance? Who you are as a son and daughter? It just it does go automatically. You are automatically one with God when you come in Jesus Christ, but it doesn't mean that you that in your experience in life that you think that way, that you feel the oneness, and that you have this beautiful relationship that is so close and so powerful. [01:10:00] (26 seconds)  #KnowYourInheritance

So even if you are tracking so well and you're doing so well in your life and everything is pumping, you know, and then you can lose your first love. And that really touched my heart. And I'll talk about some other time, but I thought, wow. All of us, we can lose. And we see these things with around the world, some of those people that have have have fallen and made mistakes. That is part of it. It's it's losing your first love. You get into stuff, into stuff, into the world, into going, going, going, but you lose your connection. You lose your first love. And then suddenly, the world steps in and then enemy gets you to fall, and then here we are. [01:02:17] (32 seconds)  #GuardYourFirstLove

Who knows there's more? Oh, when I look at you and I look at myself, there's more. There's more because I look at Jesus, I thought, well, yeah, some things, yes. Man, there's so much more. Fullness of God, fullness of God. And then Ephesians, he continues in Ephesians. He says, so Christ himself gave apostles and prophets and evangelists and pastors and teachers. Why? To equip his people for works of service. Great. So that the body of Christ may be built up. [01:05:37] (28 seconds)  #EquippedToBuild