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LIVING TO THE MAX -- Joshua 17:12-18
Someone has said that, in reality, every individual is actually 3 people, 3 persons. There is the person we are. There is the person we could be for evil. There is the person we could be for God. Dr. Vance Havner used to say, “God is using you all He can . . . but not all He could." If we would just “let go and let God" have His way in our lives, if we would just trust Him in a greater way in our lives, there would be no limit to how He could use us. The Bible has many examples of those who “sold out” to God, and He use them in a great way. There is PAUL who asked, “What wilt thou have me to do, Lord?” There is MOSES who chose “to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season . . . ” (Hebrews 11:25). There is DANIEL who defied the command of the king and prayed to God “in public” (with his bedchamber widows open, not worried about who heard him). There is JOSHUA who was a great leader of Israel and said, “ . . . as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15). In modern day life there have been those like Dwight L. Moody who said: “The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God’s help, I aim to be that man.” None of these were “super saints.” They were simply ordinary individuals who trusted God and made Him the priority of their lives. They were men of great faith in the Lord. So, what is the problem? Why do we not live up to our potential for God? We are most often like those disciples who said in Luke 17:5, “Lord, increase our faith.” And Jesus said to them in vs. 6: “If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.” The tribe of Manasseh in our text is a picture of those who fail to maximize their lives for God, and it reveals at least 3 reasons we fail.
I. OUR SETTLING FOR “INCOMPLETE POSSESSIONS” -- VS. 12.
II. THE SIN OF IMMOBILIZING PRIDE -- VS. 14.
III. THE SETTING OF INVERTED PRIORITIES -- VV. 15-18.
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By JWHSomeone has said that, in reality, every individual is actually 3 people, 3 persons. There is the person we are. There is the person we could be for evil. There is the person we could be for God. Dr. Vance Havner used to say, “God is using you all He can . . . but not all He could." If we would just “let go and let God" have His way in our lives, if we would just trust Him in a greater way in our lives, there would be no limit to how He could use us. The Bible has many examples of those who “sold out” to God, and He use them in a great way. There is PAUL who asked, “What wilt thou have me to do, Lord?” There is MOSES who chose “to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season . . . ” (Hebrews 11:25). There is DANIEL who defied the command of the king and prayed to God “in public” (with his bedchamber widows open, not worried about who heard him). There is JOSHUA who was a great leader of Israel and said, “ . . . as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:15). In modern day life there have been those like Dwight L. Moody who said: “The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God’s help, I aim to be that man.” None of these were “super saints.” They were simply ordinary individuals who trusted God and made Him the priority of their lives. They were men of great faith in the Lord. So, what is the problem? Why do we not live up to our potential for God? We are most often like those disciples who said in Luke 17:5, “Lord, increase our faith.” And Jesus said to them in vs. 6: “If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.” The tribe of Manasseh in our text is a picture of those who fail to maximize their lives for God, and it reveals at least 3 reasons we fail.
I. OUR SETTLING FOR “INCOMPLETE POSSESSIONS” -- VS. 12.
II. THE SIN OF IMMOBILIZING PRIDE -- VS. 14.
III. THE SETTING OF INVERTED PRIORITIES -- VV. 15-18.