A Global Christian

Welcome to this additional power point with just a little later in the program so you are you Dr. Graham Clement first hears his message of global public a global Christian I global believer. How you can go global for God not as important, you are current international community.

Businesses are multi-international many of you are part of businesses where you travel around the world you're connected the Internet has made the whole world viable and visible to us, we are living in a generation in which literally the world is at our fingertips. The world as at our doorstep and the fact is, God love the world and everyone in it.

Everyone on the planet is personally passionately love for God so love the world that he gave his only begotten son and he told us five times actually recorded in the Scripture. He told us to go into all the world and to make the site to deliver the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ to tell the world that God loves them and has a marvelous wonderful eternal plan for their lives. Jesus said if you're going to follow me I will make you fishers of men. Any changes our world from becoming just sort of casual bystanders to engaged fully alive, believers in Christ making a difference in our generation for Christ with too many casual, convenient, comfortable, cultural kinds of Christians and churches the day and if you're a cultural Christian.

If your casual Christian is all about you. What can God do for me. What did my church do for me as a consumer kind of religion, and many are in the consumerism and that kind of ideas all about me what My church do for me and and it become so self absorbed and a casual, comfortable, cultural Christian is all about being a greedy day. No wonder people are bored and we have we have a nice house in the suburbs. We got the great career were making money, but were still not happy to what end to what purpose we keep asking ourselves what is my life going to be significant when am I gonna make a mark. What was my legacy alive going to be, will it be just like a rock thrown in the ocean to make a little blip and then gone was my life. How can I make an eternal impact. How can I mark my generation well to do that you must be a global Christian you must be a Christian, committed call to share the good news of Jesus Christ and were all call where all commission go go go go into all the world and in acts chapter 1 and verse eight. And that's our text for today, Jesus has gathered his disciples for the last time he is about to ascend to heaven, only to return one day but he's ascending into heaven, and before he left he said but you shall receive power, after the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and to the in of the year you will be my witness. That means that we can get up every day excited about life elevated with a purpose energize the do what we do because we know that we have something greater than money greater than the stuff we may accumulate.

We have the opportunity to be a part of God's global plan his kingdom mission again. I say that there has never been a better time than right now and a better place than right here for us to go global for God. The world is why open and God is at work, strategically, sovereignly, supernaturally, God is at work in the world. God hasn't gotten old and can't do the things I used to do know our God is alive. Our God is active and he is working in ways that we could never imagine even just a few years ago. The fact is that there were many parts of the world close off to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

But now God has blown the doors open wide and we had this season. We have this window of opportunity. We know that the times are urgent. We don't know how much time we have left.

But we do know that right now we have an opportunity and unprecedented opportunity to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.

So no more excuses, no more excuses to say well I'm too young nor I'm too old or I'm too tired or I'm too busy are all the excuses away with that because when you receive power, the power of the Holy Spirit you will go to all the world.

Churches today are so often distracted and divided and discouraged in their mission. I never seen so much, first class energy wasted on so many secondary causes. God has called us to keep the main thing the main thing in the main thing for God is his love for people that need him and his desire that people are born again into his eternal family, so let God's people rise let the church arrives. Let's get back in the gospel business in the people business. Let's get the go back in the church or the little boy had one of those windup toys for got one of those for Christmas and before long it was broken. Somebody asked me what's wrong with your choice of the go is broke our go with. So often broken as Christians and this churches today.

So how do we become global Christians.

How do we get into the action.

How can we make a team impact for Christ in the most cooperative, not the competitive way in which we often worked in the Christian community today but in the most cooperative way that we can we give you for ideas that I believe will help you become global Christian runout of our text number one make a person make it and take it personal. He said for you will receive power and you will be my witnesses now this is not an option.

This is an opportunity but is not an option. If I want to live under the Lordship of Christ.

If I want to be an obedient spirit filled Christian that I will take seriously the commandment of Christ to be a personal witness for Christ. Everyone's a witness.

Of course, is a good witness or a bad witness is the witnessing positively for Chrysler negatively for Christ but we are all witnesses of Jesus Christ and not only are we to witness with our lives the way to witness with our lives if we want to live a significant life and get beyond ourselves and our own little world that we will be what Jesus said to do that is to be salt and light is matter-of-fact. He said it in words which emphasize the use he said he – you talking about you be the salt of the earth. You be the light of the world is as though God is putting his finger on every one of our noses and say you are my life. You are my salt. Salt penetrates the culture and light illuminates the darkness and everyone of us can be salt and everyone of us can be liked right where we live is a will. I don't really have a witness. I don't have that great a testimony like I just don't know if I have that much to say. When I was a little guy in our church a little Southern Baptist Church in Arkansas.

We had as a part of our children's work there a thing called the sunbeams with the sun being banned.

We had a song that we would sing a sunbeam. I will be something I will be sending for Jesus is something I will be. I love that song because it reminds me that no matter how small a sunbeam I may be, no matter how little my light may be that I could penetrate the darkness for Jesus and were all called to do it something personal.

You gotta make it personal. Gotta take it on for yourself. You don't leave it to the pros related to the missionaries say here my Lord, send me your listening to PowerPoint with Jack Graham and today's message global Christian June 30 is PowerPoint's financial year-end and we need your help. A generous friend has offered to match every gift given to PowerPoint this month. Any gifts you give to PowerPoint will bedevil allowing us to keep the hope of Jesus Christ coming your way and going out to millions more out of the and when he gave will say thanks for sending Dr. Graham's book on the end of time: 800-7954 $0.67 1-800-795-4627. You can also text the word PowerPoint to 313-1316 PowerPoint to 313131.

And don't forget to visit Jack Graham.org where you can shop our E store. Give a gift online or sign up for Dr. Graham's free daily email devotional website again is Jack Graham.O RG. Now let's get back today's message global Christian not only make it take it personal.

But if you want to go global for God and the prayerful Jesus told his disciples that I want you to go back to Jerusalem. I want you to wait until you receive the power the Holy Spirit and they did exactly what he told them to do.

They went back they waited while they waited. They prayed and on the day that God had assigned the Holy Spirit came knighted them lighted their fire and sent them out as witnesses around the world. I turned the world upside down. But if we're going to do the same. We must also wait on God and be prayerful in his presence. That means to pray passionately that the spirit of God will fill you on a daily basis that you will say Lord Jesus Christ.

Five want you to wear me like a suit of clothes.

I want to be your instrument.

I want to be used by the Holy Spirit today to touch my neighbor, my friend. I want to touch that person for Jesus Christ. I will you Lord to be Jesus and me through my life and that's how we pray and where to do this in such a way that the gift of God's spirit is stirred up within us. If you're a Christian, the Holy Spirit lives within you. What you need to do is stoke the fire, you need to fuel the fire.

Paul said the young Timothy. It was a young man wondering if you could get the job done. He was wondering if he had what it took to be an effective man of God. And that's when Paul encouraged his young protégé and said look, stir up, we Kindle it means to stoke the fire still divided no fire goes out there just a little ember left stoke at the fire blazes again. Some of you.

The fire has gone out and you need to ask the Holy Spirit of God to rekindle love and passion and excitement and enthusiasm in your witness for Christ. You've been: casual and indifferent for too long. Ask God to give you a burden for people most of us. Frankly, we passed by hundreds if not thousands of opportunities every day to share our faith with somebody else but we are too caught up in our own world and I will stop because we haven't pray and gotten God's plan for our life that day. Ask God to give you a murder, a brokenness, ask God in prayer to get wet rid of anything in your life that is a hindrance that keeps you from following Christ. So many of us were just too busy. We got we got to the things that that consume our time and our energy and we just give God the leftover what in Hebrews 12 one. Say he said, leaving those things which are behind those hindrances and the sandwich was easily the sense of laying aside every weight, and the sin which so easily holds us back. Looking under Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. What's holding you back from really letting go and letting God use you was what is hindering you from being the witness for Christ that you ought to be. This is why we need to be prayerful.

We need to get in the presence of God each day.

Ask him to search our lives and prepare a sense Phyllis that he might use this be prayerful. Ask God that he would give you creativity we all have our own way our own gifts our own talents that we can use when on all the witness in the same way.

Not everyone to go knock on the door not not everyone can engage a person 101. In a conversation. Perhaps, like others, but everyone has a witness and you want to find out what you can do and use your gifts and your talents for the glory of God.

So if you want to go global. First of all, take it personal. Secondly, be prayerful and thirdly think eternal the disciple said Laura unit restore your kingdom. At this time and Jesus said that's really not your business right now I'm coming again but your business is not to know the times of the season. So many people are interested in figuring out when the second coming is going to happen. We love to study the end times. But Jesus said really don't be overly concerned about that. I want you to take care of my business, which is to be my witnesses thinking internally because the fact is there are 6 billion people now on earth, and they will spend each one of them and eternity either in heaven or in hell. That's why we can't wait. That's why we must go. So rather than filling our life up with stuff this go to waste away or be given away, instead of just making life all about now the global Christian understands to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all of these things will be added unto you. So what ever you have this money. Use it to the glory of God to reach people for Christ if it's a business use that business to reach people for Christ.

Can you imagine what would happen if businessmen and women started thinking globally and eternally like that that we could cooperate with the church. How many resources could be available if some of you men and women would appeal to the leadership of your company's to start in investing in the kingdom of God.

The stuff is gone the last and not just money but people who are engaged in the op unity that is thinking eternally.

And that is more important than any of the accolades in any of the achievements and any advancements that you have in your life. There are 6 billion people on earth today.

They will spend eternity in either heaven or hell.

We must think about eternal things. Our goal is to take as many people with us to heaven as possible.

What a privilege to be ambassadors for Christ to become laborers with him to be partners together in the gospel to be the servants of Jesus thinking eternally.

I can say so much more about that. But finally, if you want to be a global Christian. If you want to go global for God than start local there is is very simple really. Jesus said, make it personal. You go, you are my witness be prayerful, wait until you are indeed from power with power think eternal and then start local beginning with Jerusalem right where you live for the disciples live.

It was their hometown, Samaria, Juneau, Judea and all the rest. Today, do it now.

Dare to dream care about what Jesus cares about you know the message of Jesus Christ can go from land the land until he goes from life to life to go to the nations until he goes to our neighbors.

They can go across the seas until he goes across the streets so you start where you are is what Jesus said, he said, starting Jerusalem, where you are right now and then go beyond March off the map for me. That's what we wanted. We want to care about what Jesus cares about what Jesus cares about his people who need I read the newspaper and I read the stories of people's lives in terrible events, even I only community that we scratch our heads and wonder from violence and murders in and when you read the obituary columns and you see Bethany's realize that people are so desperately alone without Jesus, that holiness in their hearts is in there so guess who gets to give them good night's we did and when we start telling our families and our friends and our fellow students are campuses about Jesus. Then life takes on a new aliveness. I mean we get our life back. We get life back in line. When we do what Jesus has called us to do so if you're bored and tired and sick and tired of being sick and tired and just warming up up you if you want to make a difference in the world for Jesus Christ. Then start sharing your faith and doing what Jesus has called us to do and commissioned us to do and do it to his glory let his name be heard throughout all the earth let his name greatly. The prey in your life, your life will take on the joy of living in the excitement of being truly alive. See, our goal is to take as many people where this is possible to have and we're not gonna back up or let up or shut up to were taken up to be with him read an article in the Houston Chronicle saw photo and an article was a lady you an older lady who had her head bent down over the chest of the younger man in the hospital we read the caption the story realize that young man in the bed had received the the heart of another young man transplanted into his chest and that older woman was the boy's mother, who was listening to the beating heart of her son and another man's chest. Would to God that he would give us his heart. The heart of Jesus meeting for the world the heart of God's son Dennis Jesus said I've come to sink in the save that which is lost, said his father has sent me, so send I you you right now is a Christian asked him to fill you with his spirit to get you out of your rod and retain ritual and move you in the reality into the resilient of a life that is alive and witnessing and sharing Jesus Christ wherever you go. Is all around us love of God. Let's make sure people know just how much of how God loves some of you today you heard the gospel and is clear to you how that hole in your heart can fill.

You can earn your way or deserve your way to heaven.

But that Jesus died on the cross to bridge the gap, the brokenness, the separation in the because of God's love can be forgiven changing plans and a brand-new transformed by the power of his grace viewing by Jesus Christ confessing your sin turning from your sin.

That's repentance and receiving Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior is knocking at your door today is that I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and by Christ to come in your life right now. Just pray that prayer Lord Jesus, thank you for dying for me.

I believe you rose again right now. I turn from my old way my old way of life and I trusting receive you as my Lord, my Savior, my master, my friend. The Bible says whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved so called his name to say Jesus Jesus Jesus come into my life. In today's message Christian is coming ranging from exciting news to share today in France and stepped forward to the $180,000 matching grant, which will double any gift you get this meant PowerPoint finish this financial year strong, with more people than ever searching for what only Jesus can provide gift today is nothing short of vital consumer PowerPoint remains at beacon of hope in the year ahead and will say thanks for your gift by semiconductor cans that you or someone to come now to have your financial Demo and request a copy of the mankind has anything come when 879546 271-800-7956 seven. You can also text it would have been 1393131. And don't forget to visit Jack Graham.org where you can shop our E store.

Give a gift online or sign up for Dr. Graham's free daily email devotion website again is Jack Graham.Margie Pastor what is your PowerPoint for today becoming a global starts with your own personal commitment each one of us who love Jesus Christ, to love the word of God. Every man, woman, boy, girl, young person needs to make and take our personal witness for Jesus Christ seriously and personally ask what I says but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth. And if you want to live under the Lordship of Christ. If you want to be an obedient Christian, a spirit filled Christian, then you must take seriously the call of Christ to be a personal witness for him now everyone's a witness. Of course, you're either a good witness or a bad witness. You're either witnessing positively for Christ or negatively for Christ. But either way, where all witnesses for Christ but were not only witnessing with our lives but we are to witness with our lives if we want to live a truly significant life and get beyond ourselves and our own little world. We will do what Jesus said, that we're to do and that is to be salt and light salt penetrates light illuminates and every one of us can be salt and everyone of us can be light right where we live, so you may be thinking I really don't have a witness. I don't really have that great a testimony will let me remind you something very important.

It doesn't matter how small you think your life is God can use you, and you can penetrate the darkness for Christ with your light and besides, you are commanded and called to do it.

So today is my prayer that you will make and take your witness for Jesus personally so you can be the global Christian that God has called you to be and that is today a number when you give a gift of PowerPoint will send you Dr. Graham's powerful book, a man of God is are things call 1-800-795-4627, 100-795-4627 could also text the word PowerPoint 31311 text PowerPoint to 3131.

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