Everything I do... 9-4-8 draft

I Corinthians 10:31-33

We can all learn to balance our lives for God by living out these actions.

Everything we do is for God.
We have talked before about the dangers of compartmentalizing your life.
That is to say my home life is this way, my work life is this way, my social life is this way, my church life is... and you can continue to break it down into lots of little boxes.
Now that doesn’t sound to bad, but the danger is that you will try to leave God out of one or more of the boxes. To do that is to be inconsistent with our faith.
God can and will healp with everything, so be sure to include him in every action and decision we make. To illustrate this, I have a few verses from Colossians that bring it to a simple understanding of how God is to be involved in one of those boxes. The Work box....
Colossians 3:23-24. (read them)
So in everything we do, we do it for God. No matter where we are or what we are doing.
That makes us consistant in our faith, home, work, and all other aspects of life.
We all seek to be an honerable person who is consistantly admired. The Best way to do that is to obey the scripture and put God in his proper place.... That is everywhere to help us with every situation. Everything we do is to build up others.

The passage says we are not to cause anyone to stumble. It is similar to a do not offend message. This does not mean ‘do not offend’ for we will do that enough just staying true to Christ. But we don’t have to seek out the oportunity to offend someone else. Also, offend here is used in the context of the verse meaning to cause a problem. In other words we are not to teach incorrect information for our own self serving ideas.

This has been seen in history through the Crusades of the Middle Ages. The Bible was written in Latin, which only a priest had enough eductation to read. In the intrest of wealth, the priest or King would direct the people to retake lands where Christ had walked or the early church had been. The motivation was that this was the will of God. But nowhere in scripture is that stated. Hence many Christian soldiers killed and were killed believing that they were following the will of God because someone had taught them something that was not in the scripture.
We have a great responsibility to stay true to the Word of God.

Everything we do is to reach out to those around us. That is to be our motivation. If we say, I like for it to be 79 in the sanctuary, that way I don’t get cold, but that makes those around you sweat like it’s 102, then you probably need to start bringing a sweater.

Please remember it is a church, you can always put more clothes on, but we frown on taking to many clothes off.... In a serious observation, Paul says that we are to seek to please everybody, and he’s talking about reaching people who don’t know Jesus. (We’ll talk about how we know that in a moment.) That means that we have to band together and work to reach those who don’t know Jesus.

If you have not read the book “Purpose Driven Life” by Rick Warren, I encourage you to pick up a copy, turn to chapter one. Skip the first quotation he offers and read the first sentance that the author himself writes. When I first picked up that book, I was skeptical, until I read the first sentance. “It’s not about you.” That brings us full circle, that everything we do, is for the glory of God.

Lastly, Everything we do is so that they may be saved. This last statement refers to all that we have been reading. And it is ment to share with us the goal of our efforts. It is easy to ask the question, why, when we are saved, doesn’t God just take us home to be with him right then.

The answer is because once we have been saved through our faith in Jesus Christ and his sacrificial death on the cross, that is when the real work begins. Because from then on, we live not for our own desires and goal, but for his goals, for his kingdom. And to love of other people by helping them in any way we can.

The biggest part of that is to share the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with them.

The short version is as follows, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.”

We work for the Glory of God, We work to encourage and build up and better the world around us. Everything we do is an effort to reach out to those around us. And we do it all so that the people of this world will be saved.

Those are the ideas I see come out in this passage. Remeber, we are to conform our lives to aling with what the Bible teaches, not just take what is convenient for us at the time.
So I encourage you to take this and learn from it, and seek the will of God in all you do.