SENT OUT TO SHARE
Matthew 28:19-20 - 19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them…. 20 teaching them to observe everything.
Acts 1:8 - you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Acts 4:20 - ... we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.
JESUS CAME, DIED AND ROSE TO MAKE GOD'S STORY OUR STORY!
Luke 8:26-39 - 27 When {Jesus} got out on land, a demon-possessed man from the town met Him. For a long time he had worn no clothes and did not stay in a house but in the tombs. 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and said in a loud voice, “What do You have to do with me, Jesus, You Son of the Most High God? I beg You, don’t torment me!” 29 For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was guarded, bound by chains and shackles, he would snap the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places. 30 “What is your name?” Jesus asked him. “Legion,” he said—because many demons had entered him. 31 And they begged Him not to banish them to the abyss. 32 A large herd of pigs was there, feeding on the hillside. The demons begged Him to permit them to enter the pigs, and He gave them permission. 33 The demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned. 34 When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran off and reported it in the town and in the countryside.
36 Meanwhile, the eyewitnesses reported to them how the demon-possessed man was delivered. 37 Then all the people of the Gerasene region asked {Jesus} to leave them, because they were gripped by great fear. So getting into the boat, He returned. 38 The man from whom the demons had departed kept begging Him to be with Him. But He sent him away and said, 39 “Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you.” And off he went, proclaiming throughout the town all that Jesus had done for him.
YOUR STORY WILL LIKELY HAVE THE GREATEST IMPACT ON THE PEOPLE YOU'VE KNOWN THE LONGEST.
JESUS WANTS US TO SHARE OUR STORY RIGHT WHERE HE HAS US.
HOW IS JESUS WANTING TO USE YOUR STORY TO IMPACT THOSE WHO DO NOT-YET KNOW HIM?
John 4:5-7 - 5 so He came to a town of Samaria… 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening. 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. “Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her…
John 4:25-26 - 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming”. “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.” 26 “I am He,” Jesus told her, “the One speaking to you.”
John 4:28-30, 41 - 28 Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the men, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?” 30 They left the town and made their way to Him.
41 Many more believed because of what He said.
WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER JESUS AND HE TRANSFORMS YOUR LIFE, YOU WON'T ABLE TO KEEP IT TO YOURSELF.
THE LEPER ENCOUNTERS JESUS
Mark 1:40–45 …45 “Yet he went out and began to proclaim it widely and to spread the news…”
TWO BLIND MEN ENOUNTER JESUS
Matthew 9:27–31 …31 “they went out and spread the news about Him throughout that whole area.”
DEAF & MUTE MAN ENCOUNTERS JESUS
Mark 7:31–37 … 36 “The more He ordered them, the more they proclaimed it.”
JESUS' STORY IN YOUR LIFE IS WORTH SHARING.
WHO WE WERE.
HOW WE ENCOUNTERED JESUS.
HOW HE TRANSFORMED OUR LIVES.
THESE ARE OUR STORIES AND THEY ARE MEANT TO BE SHARED.
