WEBVTT 00:00:00.561 --> 00:00:14.553 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Commission Thursday, where we believe that every believer is the light, every believer is the salt and every believer is the Christ ambassador and every believer is the carrier of the message of good news. 00:00:14.553 --> 00:00:34.485 So this particular time, I was just talking meditating on this portion of Scripture in the book of Matthew, chapter 4, verses 19, where Christ is telling, calling the disciples, and he says come, follow me and I will make you the disciples of men, because the first dimension of this call is to be with Jesus Christ. 00:00:34.485 --> 00:00:44.082 Now, today we'll not focus on that, because I know we've talked about that and probably some time in the future we'll emphasize on that aspect of us coming and being with Jesus Christ. 00:00:44.082 --> 00:00:50.354 But I want to focus on this place that he's saying follow me and I will make you the fishers of men. 00:00:50.354 --> 00:00:58.704 Now, this process of making is sometimes a challenge and I think, as a church or as individual, as a Christian, that's where sometimes we miss it. 00:00:58.704 --> 00:01:01.070 Because I want us to look at the four pointers. 00:01:01.070 --> 00:01:03.764 When Christ is saying I will make you. 00:01:04.286 --> 00:01:07.885 The first thing that he wants us to do is he wants us to engage. 00:01:07.885 --> 00:01:14.953 What do we engage in For you to engage in a particular thing, you must have a vision of where that particular thing is heading to. 00:01:14.953 --> 00:01:22.772 You must have the passion for you to engage and you must make a deliberate decision that you are going to be part of it. 00:01:22.772 --> 00:01:33.183 Most of us, we are not effective in our marketplace of being the light as being the salt because we are not deliberate and we've not made that particular decision to engage. 00:01:33.183 --> 00:01:36.850 This calling is an assignment for us to engage. 00:01:36.850 --> 00:01:39.763 We must engage in communicating the gospel. 00:01:39.763 --> 00:01:44.331 We must engage in persuading people about this gospel. 00:01:44.331 --> 00:01:45.653 We must engage. 00:01:45.653 --> 00:01:49.611 It might be extensive or intensive, but we must engage. 00:01:50.159 --> 00:02:00.707 The second thing of this dimension of calling is we are calling people to experience the grace One amazing thing with the salvation. 00:02:00.707 --> 00:02:12.453 It's an experience, not like any other things, that I need to do, rituals for me to be in a particular level, but no, the amazing thing with salvation through the blood of Jesus Christ. 00:02:12.453 --> 00:02:15.526 It's an experience For me to be where I am today. 00:02:15.526 --> 00:02:18.133 It's an experience of grace For me to love. 00:02:18.133 --> 00:02:22.028 It's because I've experienced the true love that comes from God. 00:02:22.028 --> 00:02:26.018 It's an experience, the way I experience Jesus Christ forgiving my sins and making me a new creature. 00:02:26.018 --> 00:02:28.254 It's an experience, the way I experience Jesus Christ forgiving my sins and making me a new creature. 00:02:28.254 --> 00:02:35.868 It's an experience, so Christ is calling us when he said that I will make you to be a follower. 00:02:35.868 --> 00:02:45.051 It's an experience so that we can take people out of this modern life experience into a new experience of grace that is anchored on God. 00:02:45.552 --> 00:02:49.709 And the third thing that he's calling us upon is to build a new relationship. 00:02:49.709 --> 00:02:56.111 The reason why he's saying that I will make you fishers of men, because there is a lifestyle, the former ways that people are used to. 00:02:56.111 --> 00:03:01.290 But he's calling us so that we can lead these people into a new relationship with him. 00:03:01.290 --> 00:03:15.629 So our assignment, whenever God plant us in various platforms in the marketplace, in ministries, in schools, in institutions is so that we can develop this relationship to bring people to the gospel of the kingdom of God. 00:03:16.069 --> 00:03:21.872 My fourth and the final point is so that we can impart these godly values to other people. 00:03:21.872 --> 00:03:30.176 I know we live in a generation and a time where people don't value, don't have values, but the values are the things that will make us to stand. 00:03:30.176 --> 00:03:41.491 So when he's saying that I will make you a fisher of men, it's because you have values and you need to impart these values to other people, in your family, in your marketplace or where God has called you. 00:03:41.491 --> 00:03:46.168 How to be obedient and how to follow Holy Spirit, the disciplines of Christ. 00:03:46.168 --> 00:03:55.388 These are the values that we need to take out there, so for you to be the light, to be the salt and to be the carrier of the message of good news, you need these values anchored on you. 00:03:55.388 --> 00:04:11.544 So in this particular week, as we step out, remember you must engage, you must lead people to experience this grace and you must help people to develop this new relationship and, finally, you must be anchored on these values that people can emulate. 00:04:11.544 --> 00:04:12.526 Be blessed.