Disciple Bartizan of the Smallest (Acts 1:12-14) 8/18/2024
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Disciple Bartizan of the Smallest (Acts 1:12-14) 8/18/2024
What is God’s wish? If we are God’s people, we must embrace it in our hearts. God’s wish is saving all souls and all nations (John 3:16, 1Timothy 2:4). There are people who will be used for this work. We call them the
Disciples. When we speak of Disciples, we describe them as “people who learn from and follow the ones who teach them and carry on their works.”
Why is it that God’s wish is to save all people and all nations, but evangelism and world evangelization still isn’t taking place? When we say 5000 tribes, it means that there are about 5000 people groups that have not yet heard the Gospel. Because we have lost hold of Evangelism and Missions that saves people, the world, and the 3 ages which are upon us. And that is because we lack Disciples.
What was last week’s Covenant from the pulpit? No matter how small or lacking we are, God will make us into a thousand and a mighty nation. That way, He will raise us up as witnesses that will save all nations and receive True Glory. The 120 people of Mark’s Upper Room were those individuals. At the Jerusalem Temple that King Herod of Rome built, there were exceptional people gathered. They had skill and power and were respected by the world. However, God did not carry out Evangelism through them. God carried out Evangelism through the people of Mark’s Upper Room. Who, in the eyes of those in the Jerusalem Temple, had no power or background, let alone a fancy Temple building. Ultimately, they made Rome into a Christian nation. We call these people the “Disciples” of Mark’s Upper Room. The Upper Room movement exists to restore this.
God chose the weakest and the most powerless people as Disciples (Mark 3:13-15). As Christ took them around for 3 years, He allowed them to see and experience everything (Disciple Training). Then Jesus gathered them at this Mark’s Upper Room to pray deeply. They not only overcame their weaknesses and failures, but even the chains of death, and with that strength, Jesus sent them out to the world. These individuals became the Bartizan (Vessel, System) that never faltered.
- Discover first the identity of a Disciple that God gives.
As saved people of God, we have two identities. Identity as a child of God (last week’s message) and the identity of a Disciple.
1) The moment we received salvation, we were chosen as Disciples. All the believers in the Early Church were inevitably Disciples. The moment they came to believe, they became Disciples (Acts 2:41). The difference was that there were Disciples who were new believers and Disciples that were trained. There was a Disciple named Ananias who led the persecutor Saul, who met Christ on his own while praying alone (Acts 9:10). The unnamed believers who were scattered from persecution and went to Antioch to evangelize and later raised the Antioch church were Disciples. They earned the nickname from unbelievers there, and that was the name “Christians” (Acts 11:26).
2) God trains us, who were called as Disciples, as True Disciples. All our Worship, Departmental Seminars, Sunday Schools, Retreats and Camps are trainings that God has allowed for us through the church. We may face conflicts, hardships, or even persecution. That is God’s training that makes us go deeper with God and that molds us as Disciples (Matthew 16:24). The Seven Remnants in the Bible all went through training to be used as a Disciple of that age.
3) After such training, God will send us out to save people like us and people who need answers. God will attach to us , people like us who need answers to life. This is what we call “Evangelism that takes place.” There are so many people around the world that need to hear your testimony. They also exist at the end of the earth (Acts 1:8, Matthew 28:18-20).
- Now, grow your strength to be able to live as a Disciple. This blessing is what the Disciples of Mark’s Upper Room enjoyed. They concentrated for 10 days (completeness of order) and received the Holy Spirit.
1) The most fundamental thing is knowing the meaning of “only Christ” and holding onto that (Acts 1:1).
① “Only Christ” does not mean we do not need anything else. It means that only Christ can be our Unique Solution. Only He gave His life for us (freedom), only He resurrected and broke Satan’s authority (Spiritual Victory), and only He will never give up on us or leave us. He will be with us,within us eternally (Immanuel).
② All works of those who possess this answer of “Only” will become works of Uniqueness, and they will enjoy the blessing of recreation that saves people and the world. Even unbelievers now teach people to discover their “only” (Harvard professor’s “only one”).
2) Now, align all your directions with “Only God’s Kingdom” (Acts 1:3).
① Jesus emphasized this for 40 days after His resurrection and before His ascension. God’s Kingdom is the background we must enjoy on earth (Luke 17:21, Matthew 12:28, Romans 14:17) and the Mission we must carry out in the world.
② It is being governed by the Lord of all creation and the King of kings every moment. Through us, God’s plan will be fulfilled in our studies, work, businesses, and future, and wherever we go, God’s Kingdom will be expanded (Evangelism and Missions). Jesus also evangelized God’s Kingdom (Matthew 4:17), and the Disciples also spoke of Christ and the Kingdom of God (Acts 28:31).
3) Every moment, create a time of concentration – especially during difficult times – to seek the power of only the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8).
① This is the power to surpass all our scars, weaknesses, and limitations. This is the power that comes from above and is Unique and Absolute. Whatever you do, do it with this power (Isaiah 40:31, Zechariah 4:6). We are thankful to have seen these witnesses in the Paris Olympics.
② The Summit of Summits, Summit that saves Summits, and the Summit that will save the world. Which is the Summit that possesses this power. We must look to this blessing every time we worship, and through individual scheduled prayer and meditation, enjoy this blessing and experience it through 24 -Prayer.
- Hold onto the covenant and vision of a Disciple used for 3 Ministries and challenge (CVDIP).
1) Disciple that saves the field. Our workplace and region is the Blessing and Inheritance that God has given us according to our own portions (Psalm 16:5-6). Enjoy God’s presence in that place, reveal evidence in that place, and glorify God (Joseph’s entire life). Pray alone there and take time to concentrate on God (“president that changed the White House into a prayer room).
2) Disciple that raises Disciples using their specialty. With your specialty, you can raise other Specialized Disciples as Evangelism Disciples that will be used by God. There are talents, gifts, and positions that God has given to us. There must be Disciples like us that are raised. Our pain may become our specialty that saves others like us. Those others will also become Disciples that saves others like them.
3) Disciples that raises even a single Multiethnic, TCK Disciple. This is the greatest blessing that the believers of a Multiethnic church get to enjoy (Disciple of table tennis gold medalist of 88 Olympics)
Conclusion – No matter how small or lacking we are, may we hold onto the Covenant of a Disciple that God has chosen and enjoy those blessings of a Disciple.
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