Sometimes we can get carried away with our walk as we go about our lives in Christ, having a unmerited life walk in Christ. In other words we are so involved with commission that we forget about the His purpose and His will for our walk. You might say for filling the will of the commission its like walking untethered from his will for your walk. So you have forgotten the
purpose for the commission.
Luke 14:16-24 says, 16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: 17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. 18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. 19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. 20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 21 So that servant came,
and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. 22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. 23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the
highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
As you have read that, some people started out wanting to serve the Lord but their focus got skewed by the desires of their flesh. You know there is a old saying that goes something like this: “Good is not good enough.”
Proverbs 16:2 says, 2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes;
but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
In the Word of God it says there is a way that seems right to a man but the end there of is the way of death. Now look at the person next to you and tell them this, “your good intention may not be good enough.”
Proverbs 21:2-3, 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes:
but the LORD pondereth the hearts. 3 To do justice and judgment
is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice
Ecclesiastes 9:10-11 says, 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to
men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
In my Conclusion, take what I’m going to say now, with you now. Don’t let the purpose of your commission get lost in you. Remember only what you do Christ will last. As people of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the last scripture I’ll give you 2 Corinthians 4:8-12, which says, 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
So this is why our motto for AOCM is “ Never give up never surrender “ and that means don’t surrender to your environment nor to your flesh, to friends, and even your family, because to surrender is defeat which leads to death.
