Matthew 28:16-20

Peace: the calm assurance that what God is doing is best

Hope: the confident expectation of something better ahead based on God’s promises

Patience: accepting a difficult situation without giving God a deadline for removing it.

Faith: Active confidence in the God who has revealed Himself

• Faith is believing the Word of God and acting upon it

– no matter how you feel

– knowing that God promises a good result

• Sin is the satisfying of a legitimate need in an illegitimate way
• We stray from God’s plan when we build our purpose for living around the satisfaction of our needs instead of the fulfilling of God’s will
• Though you may ask God to do something for you, he generally wants to do something in you

God wants to work in you: fear, frustration, purpose, joy

We try to do it our way and fail

1. Build your life around the people, purposes, and pleasures that will endure

• Matthew 28:16
• Allow God to weed out the pretenders
• Follow his directions

2. Build your life around the worship of Jesus

• Matthew 28:17-18
• Building a deeper, more intimate relationship

When in doubt:

Who has authority in heaven and on earth?

How much? ALL

Where did it come from? It was GIVEN

3. Build your life on the spiritual

• Matthew 28:19,20

GO! – live life with purpose

• Why don’t we go?

1. Jesus isn’t speaking to me
2. Someone else will do it
3. What’s the rush? Apathy
4. I have a better plan

• 5 things you do not build your life on:

1. Not the material – things
2. Not the financial – security
3. Not the physical – appearance
4. Not the emotionally satisfying – position, happiness
5. Not the fleshly – pleasure

Make disciples – a shareable passion

Baptize – an observable commitment

Teaching them to observe – a well maintained routine

When faced with doubt, when face with an uncertain purpose, when faced with a daunting task:

“I am with you always.”

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