Mission Twenty-One: Run To The Father
• 2018 the year of Confinement
• 2019 the year of Construction
• 2020 the year of Covid
• 2021 the year of Commission.
2021 Word
Forward
Unknown isn’t Unwanted
Mission21 is a call to a…
• Spiritually Hostile Culture
• Politically Divided Culture
• Global Culture
Jonah 1:1-3 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.
Jonah wanted to be in a place void of any spiritual influence so that he could live outside of the conviction of abandoning this call.
We Must be Confident in our Identity and Call to Go into a Hostile Culture.
The fish wasn’t punishment, the fish was provision.
Jonah 3:1-5 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.” 3 Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it. 4 Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” 5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
3 Key Truths
1. Rebellion warrants justice.
2. Repentance is rewarded with grace.
3. God works both sides simultaneously.
Romans 10:13-15, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
Transformation begins with sent…
Sent, Preached, Heard, Believed, Called On, Saved.
Jonah 4:9-11 9 But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” “It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.” 10 But the Lord said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. 11 And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”
Mission21 Requires us to vow…
• See people not crowds.
• See people not ideologies.
• Preach to whom you are presented.