The Gospel needs
missionaries - PART
TWO
Go with God 2
• Hurt World
• Hard Words
• Huge Challenges
• Holy Spirit
Hurt World
War
tears
Greed
Orphans
Injustice
Peace
Joy
Fairness
family
Justice
925
Million
884
Million
10.9
Million
20,000
Hurt world…
He upholds the cause of the oppressed
and gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets prisoners free,
the LORD gives sight to the blind,
the LORD lifts up those who are bowed
down,
the LORD loves the righteous.
The LORD watches over the alien and
sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
Psalm 146
Hurt world…
Our
calling
Speak up for those who
cannot speak for
themselves,
for the rights of all who
are destitute.
Speak up and judge
fairly; defend the
rights of the poor and
needy.
Proverbs 31v8-9
Hard Words …
You trample on the poor
and force him to give you
grain
You oppress the righteous and
take bribes
and you deprive the poor of
justice in the courts.
Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Hard Words …
Is this not this the kind of fasting I have
chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice and untie
the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free and break
every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the
hungry and to provide the poor
wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your
own flesh and blood?
Isaiah 58
I was hungry and your formed a humanities
group to discuss my hunger. I was
imprisioned and you crept off quietly to
pray in your chapel for my release, I was
naked and in your mind you debated the
morality of my appearance. I was sick and
you knelt and thanked God for your health.
I was homeless and your preached to me
about the spiritual shelter of God. I
was lonely and you left me alone to pray
for me.
YOU SEEM SO HOLY but I am still hungry
and cold and alone.
Hard words but good
encouragement
But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!
Amos 5:24
If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,
and if you spend yourselves on behalf of
the hungry and satisfy the needs of the
oppressed, then your light will rise in the
darkness, Isaiah 58
Huge challenges
Involvement in our world is not optional.
Huge challenges
Some are called to Go
Huge challenges
All are called to Act
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Huge challenges
All are called to Pray
Holy Spirit
God’s Spirit at work
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit
comes on you;
and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the ends of the earth.“
Acts 1:8