Rescue Mission: Rescue For My Family
The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.
Luke 19:10 NIV
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son... For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:16a, 17 NIV
Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Mark 2:17b NIV
Luke 19:10 NIV
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son... For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:16a, 17 NIV
Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Mark 2:17b NIV
My Family’s Rescue
Starts with Me. . .
1. Committing to God’s Kingdom.
“Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."
Matthew 6:33 NIV
"... as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
Joshua 24:15b ESV
Matthew 6:33 NIV
"... as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
Joshua 24:15b ESV
2. Showing Up in the Natural.
However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.
1 Corinthians 15:46 NKJV
People who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.
1 Corinthians 2:14 NLT
1 Corinthians 15:46 NKJV
People who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.
1 Corinthians 2:14 NLT
3. Expecting the Spiritual.
I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.
1 Corinthians 3:6 NLT
‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD...
Zechariah 4:6b NIV
. . . I will pour out water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring, and My blessing on your descendants
Isaiah 44:3 NASB
1 Corinthians 3:6 NLT
‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD...
Zechariah 4:6b NIV
. . . I will pour out water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring, and My blessing on your descendants
Isaiah 44:3 NASB