Philippians 2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
Now isn’t that the sad truth my Friends? The majority of us are more taken up in seeking our own interests than the Lord’s. Some of us don’t even have any business of our own, so we interfere in other people’s. But as 3 Canal say’s, ‘If yuh don’t have no business, then yuh better find a business and stop minding other people’s business.’ Amen! But seriously people, we tend to put the Lord’s affairs on the back burner, if and until we’ve taken care of our own, though we know full well that we ought to put the Lord’s work first, and everything else second. But the selfish, small minded cult of ‘I’ that currently permeates our society doesn’t lend itself to that. You’ve got to make a conscious effort to live unselfishly. Like Bruh Paul said, writing from prison in Rome to the Philippians, he had to send Timothy, his right hand man to check on them. ‘For I have no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state.’ (vs.20) Now isn’t that a crying shame Friends? Only Timothy had the same mental and spiritual disposition as Bruh Paul, that would allow them to care for the plight of other faraway believers. None of the Roman Christians were willing to undertake the journey. As he states, they were too busy pursuing their own interests, not Christ’s. Although they witnessed zealously around Rome, they refused to do missionary work further afield. Hn! That sounds familiar. Many of us are quite content to do what we can in our little neck of the woods, but we certainly don’t want to venture outside our familiar confines. But Friends, how is the word going to be spread if we don’t step outside our limited, self drawn boundaries eh? Remember Jesus confidently proclaimed, ‘And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations;’ (Mat.24:14) So if everyone just stuck to their little area, no one outside of these small enclaves would ever hear the Word and would be denied the opportunity to accept Christ and the wonderful gift of salvation that He offers. We’d be shirking our Christian duty and selling Christ short, making Him sound like just an ordinary loudmouth, pure hype and no substance; talking about the gospel being proclaimed to all the world, but who’s doing it? Friends, we’re forgetting that our priority on this earth is to spread the Word. Jesus’ last instruction, just before His ascension, was, ‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.’ (Mark 16:15) People, are we doing that? Not as zealously as we should. The enemy and his cohorts seem to be more energized than us. We need to step up our missionary witness. Step up and step out People! That’s the only way the Word will be spread. And in this era of modern technology and communication, there are so many different ways of disseminating the gospel, that there’s no real excuse, but our own inactivity and lack of enthusiasm, for why it’s not being spread faster and wider. Oh people, if we’re serious about being followers of Christ, then we’ve got to get up off our comfortable rear ends, now, put our selfish agendas on hold, and do whatever it takes to disseminate the good news of Jesus far and wide. Friends, the world needs it more desperately than at any other time in its existence. It’s the only thing that can save us from ourselves and the hungry, lurking, evil enemy. Much LOVE!…Christ can’t save anyone…if they don’t know of Him…
Now isn’t that the sad truth my Friends? The majority of us are more taken up in seeking our own interests than the Lord’s. Some of us don’t even have any business of our own, so we interfere in other people’s. But as 3 Canal say’s, ‘If yuh don’t have no business, then yuh better find a business and stop minding other people’s business.’ Amen! But seriously people, we tend to put the Lord’s affairs on the back burner, if and until we’ve taken care of our own, though we know full well that we ought to put the Lord’s work first, and everything else second. But the selfish, small minded cult of ‘I’ that currently permeates our society doesn’t lend itself to that. You’ve got to make a conscious effort to live unselfishly. Like Bruh Paul said, writing from prison in Rome to the Philippians, he had to send Timothy, his right hand man to check on them. ‘For I have no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state.’ (vs.20) Now isn’t that a crying shame Friends? Only Timothy had the same mental and spiritual disposition as Bruh Paul, that would allow them to care for the plight of other faraway believers. None of the Roman Christians were willing to undertake the journey. As he states, they were too busy pursuing their own interests, not Christ’s. Although they witnessed zealously around Rome, they refused to do missionary work further afield. Hn! That sounds familiar. Many of us are quite content to do what we can in our little neck of the woods, but we certainly don’t want to venture outside our familiar confines. But Friends, how is the word going to be spread if we don’t step outside our limited, self drawn boundaries eh? Remember Jesus confidently proclaimed, ‘And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations;’ (Mat.24:14) So if everyone just stuck to their little area, no one outside of these small enclaves would ever hear the Word and would be denied the opportunity to accept Christ and the wonderful gift of salvation that He offers. We’d be shirking our Christian duty and selling Christ short, making Him sound like just an ordinary loudmouth, pure hype and no substance; talking about the gospel being proclaimed to all the world, but who’s doing it? Friends, we’re forgetting that our priority on this earth is to spread the Word. Jesus’ last instruction, just before His ascension, was, ‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.’ (Mark 16:15) People, are we doing that? Not as zealously as we should. The enemy and his cohorts seem to be more energized than us. We need to step up our missionary witness. Step up and step out People! That’s the only way the Word will be spread. And in this era of modern technology and communication, there are so many different ways of disseminating the gospel, that there’s no real excuse, but our own inactivity and lack of enthusiasm, for why it’s not being spread faster and wider. Oh people, if we’re serious about being followers of Christ, then we’ve got to get up off our comfortable rear ends, now, put our selfish agendas on hold, and do whatever it takes to disseminate the good news of Jesus far and wide. Friends, the world needs it more desperately than at any other time in its existence. It’s the only thing that can save us from ourselves and the hungry, lurking, evil enemy. Much LOVE!…Christ can’t save anyone…if they don’t know of Him…
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