Let's Go To Work
FOUNDATION STATEMENT: Because of the diligence
required to walk in victory most believers would rather be lay and live in
crisis-management-mode rather than engaging diligence and walking in divine
victory
I. Do we have to work? (Hebrews
11:6, 6:11)
A.
There’s a difference between preaching works,
and preaching work
1.
When a person preaches works that means
they’re preaching that you have to do certain things in order to be saved and
go to Heaven
a.
Ephesians 2:8-You’re saved by grace, not by
works and you don’t earn salvation
2.
Just because we’re saved by grace doesn’t
mean that we don’t work
a.
We don’t work to earn salvation, but that
doesn’t mean we don’t work
B.
The Believer is supposed to work
1.
John 6:27-29-Labor in the meat of the Word
2.
1 Thessalonians 1:3-It’s a work of faith and
labor of love
3.
Hebrews 4:11-We labor to enter into rest
4.
1 Timothy 4:7-We train, exert, and exercise
vigorously unto Godliness
5.
Colossians 1:29-We labor to fulfill the call
of God on our lives
C.
Our diligence begins in being diligent to
hear and do the Word of God
1.
Diligence to find out what the Word says and
in being a doer of that Word
a.
Be a diligent hearer and doer of the Word
2.
People miss out on what Jesus provided
because of what they don’t know and do
a.
People are cut off from God’s provision
because of what they don’t know (Hosea 4:6)
1)
The lacked knowledge because they rejected it
b.
People who know the Word are cut off because
they do not do (James 1:25)
1)
You can hear the word, but not do it and be
cut off from the blessing
2)
The blessing doesn’t come until the doing
begins
3.
The answer to every test, trial, tribulation
and negative circumstance in life is to be a diligent hearer and doer of the Word (Deuteronomy 28:1-Hearken-Hear,
attend to, obey)
a.
Problems don’t get solved and victories don’t
manifest until somebody makes the decision to diligently hear and do the Word
1)
The root to every failure in life can be
traced back to a failure to be diligent in hearing and doing the Word
2)
You cannot diligently hear and do what the
Word says and fail or be defeated (Joshua 1:5)
a)
When believers think that you can it destroys
faith
b.
Diligently hearing and doing the Word is the
gateway to great victories
1)
John 2:5-Whatever he says to you do it!
2)
Daniel 3-He said don’t bow so don’t bow!
4.
Manifestation is limited to diligent and correct application; Diligent and correct application is limited to
the revelation you have; the revelation you have is limited to the amount of
time you give God’s Word in your life
D.
Everybody can develop diligence because
everybody is diligent in something right now
1.
Some people are diligent in being lazy
2.
Most people have selective diligence; they’re diligent in flesh-pleasing activities
that they want to do
3.
In the Body of Christ, most people aren’t
lazy people, but their diligence is been
misplaced