Lesson 10

Crossing the ChasmThe Hope of Missions

Missions: The Church’s Marching OrdersOur Lord Jesus gave the church global “marching orders” which involves each one of us. It is precisely because this mission is world-encompassing that it has local implications. Know this global mission well in order to understand the commission graciously given to Proclamation and my particular role in it.

1.The Real Problem – The Real Solution2.The End Game – The Objective of Missions3.Common Ground? The Challenge of Unbelief4.It’s Dangerous Over There! Suffering and

Persecution5.You Will Receive Power! The Holy Spirit &

Missions6.Mission of Mercy – Word & Deed7.Dreams & Visions – Holy Spirit and the Word8.Missions in our DNA - The Global Church 9.Holy Spirit & Scripture – Summary10. Crossing the Chasm – The Hope of Missions

Mission AccomplishedRevelation 21:2–3 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.”

What Gives Us Hope?

• False hope?• What is true?• Where is the power?

The Eternal ChasmMatthew 25:31–46 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. . . “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. . . And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

HOLY KINGDOM INAUGURATED

HOLY KINGDOM CONSUMMATED

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Coming of the Last Adam

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Chasm of the Adams45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. . . 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. (1 Corinthians 15)

The Chasm of the Fall

• Guilty• Alienated• Corrupt

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Creature

• Distinction• Dependence• Condescension• Knowledge• Obligation

Covenant

Christianity . . .“Religion” or “Relationship”?

The Chasm TodayRomans 1:18–25 (ESV) 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

The Chasm Today (continued)21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

The Chasm Crossed•Guilty•Alienated•Corrupt

• Justified•Adopted• Sanctified

By What Power?• The Valley of Dry Bones (Ezekiel 37)• Like gives birth to like (John 3)

By Whose Rules?• The Spirit and Christ• The Spirit and the Word• The Spirit and the Church

Joey’s Story

1.The Real Problem – The Real Solution2.The End Game – The Objective of Missions3.Common Ground? The Challenge of Unbelief4.It’s Dangerous Over There! Suffering and

Persecution5.You Will Receive Power! The Holy Spirit &

Missions6.Mission of Mercy – Word & Deed7.Dreams & Visions – Holy Spirit and the Word8.Missions in our DNA - The Global Church 9.Holy Spirit & Scripture – Summary10. Crossing the Chasm – The Hope of Missions